I sometimes wonder how we spent leisure time before satellite television and Internet came along…and then I realise that I have spent… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future. — 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
Since women are better at producing babies, presumably Nature has given men some talent to compensate. But for the moment I can't… — 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
“Three million years! The infinitely crowded panorama of written history, with its empires and its kings, its triumphs and its tragedies, covered… — 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
The exploration of the planets is now closer to us in time than the exploration of Africa by Stanley and Livingstone. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I've been saying for a long time that I'm hoping to find intelligent life in Washington. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“This was the moment when history held its breath, and the present sheared asunder from the past as an iceberg splits from… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not… — 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
We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return The… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
When I start on a book, I have been thinking about it and making occasional notes for some time... So I have… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“A thousand years in one body is long enough for any man; at the end of that time, his mind is clogged… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“And yet—this fascination with the future has generated its own antithesis, particularly in the so-called affluent or developed societies. There is a… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return ... — 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
“There was nothing left of Earth. They had leeched away the last atoms of its substance. It had nourished them, through 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
