At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Attempting to define science fiction is an undertaking almost as difficult, though not so popular, as trying to define pornography... In both… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I'm sometimes asked how I would like to be remembered. I've had a diverse career as a writer, underwater explorer, space promoter… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The Earth would only have to move a few million kilometers sunward-or starward-for the delicate balance of climate to be destroyed. The… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
'The Devil in the Dark' impressed me because it presented the idea, unusual in science fiction then and now, that something weird,… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference.… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Even by the twenty-second century, no way had yet been discovered of keeping elderly and conservative scientists from occupying crucial administrative positions.… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Much blood has also been spilled on the carpet in attempts to distinguish between science fiction and fantasy. I have suggested an… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“He did not know that the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“…once science had declared a thing possible, there was no escape from its eventual realization…” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Miraculous though they were—perhaps the supreme triumph of the science that had produced them—they were the creations of a sick culture, a… — 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
