They will have time enough, in those endless aeons, to attempt all things, and to gather all knowledge no Gods imagined by… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
You will find men like him in all of the world's religions. They know that we represent reason and science, and, however… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The numbers of distinct human societies or nations, when our race is twice its present age, may be far greater than the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
One can imagine a time when men who still inhabit organic bodies are regarded with pity by those who have passed on… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Others, one suspects, are afraid that the crossing of space , and above all contact with intelligent but nonhuman races, may destroy… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Finally, I would like to assure my many Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim friends that I am sincerely happy that the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life - much less intelligence - beyond this Earth does… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Many, and some of the most pressing, of our terrestrial problems can be solved only by going into space. Long before it… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
If man survives for as long as the least successful of the dinosaurs-those creatures whom we often deride as nature's failures-then we… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I suspect that religion is a necessary evil in the childhood of our particular species. And that's one of the interesting things… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. However valuable-even necessary-that may have been in… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
A wise man once said that all human activity is a form of play. And the highest form of play is the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Religion is a by-product of fear. For much of human history it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I believe any malevolent supercivilisation would have rapidly self-destructed as we may be in the process of doing ourselves. If we do… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
If the house is to be demolished tomorrow anyhow, people seem to feel, we may as well burn the furniture today. None… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Please help keep the world clean: others may wish to use it. Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Our own grandchildren may demonstrate that-sometimes- Gigantic is Beautiful. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [...] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The crossing of space ... may do much to turn men's minds outwards and away from their present tribal squabbles. In this… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible.… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence—or even in life. Both may be random… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I doubt if there is a single field of study so theoretical, so remote from what is laughingly called everyday life, that… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware,… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have transmitted to… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“The universe is full of energy, but much of it is at equilibrium. At equilibrium no energy can flow, and therefore it cannot be… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Here the trees surrounded them with an invisible, anechoic blanket, so that every word seemed sucked into silence the moment it was uttered.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“I’m a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Pure coincidence, of course, but a sensible man makes coincidences work for him.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
