Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
SETI is probably the most important quest of our time , and it amazes me that governments and corporations are not supporting… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Because politics is the science of the possible, it only appeals to second-rate minds. The first raters only interested in the impossible” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Didn’t somebody once say ‘Politics is the art of the possible’?” “Quite true—which is why only second-rate minds go into it. Genius… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible-indeed, inevitable-the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Otto would pull the trigger at the slightest provocation and you, Michael, would agonize aver its morality even if your life were… — 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
I also believe - and hope - that politics and economics will cease to be as important in the future as they… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“For the last century, almost all top political appointments [on the planet Earth] had been made by random computer selection from the… — 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
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