Stars Quotes by Arthur C. Clarke

Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.

— Arthur C. Clarke

The moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars.

— Arthur C. Clarke

“My God -- it's full of stars! -Dave Bowman.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

The universe must be full of voices, calling from star to star in a myriad tongues. One day we shall join that…

— Arthur C. Clarke

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Look, whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There is always a last time for everything.) Overhead, without any fuss,…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Then he [The Star Child] waited, marshaling his thoughts and brooding over his still untested powers. For though he was master of…

— Arthur C. Clarke

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

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

And because, in all the Galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“It goes on forever and forever, and perhaps Something made it. But how you can believe that Something has a special interest…

— Arthur C. Clarke

I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are…

— Arthur C. Clarke

In this universe the night was falling; the shadows were lengthening towards an east that would not know another dawn. But elsewhere…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Every age has its dreams, its symbols of romance. Past generations were moved by the graceful power of the great windjammers, by…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Space can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered. When our race has reached…

— Arthur C. Clarke