Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains; they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
. . . Moon-Watcher felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of Homer is turned upon our age. Along the echoing corridors of time, the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time. As their material conditions improve, men raise their sights and become… — 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
The choice, as Wells once said, is the Universe-or nothing. . . . The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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