Time Quotes by Arthur C. Clarke

The future is not to be forecast, but created.

— Arthur C. Clarke

“He’s a creature of today—not haunted by the past or fearful of the future!”

— Arthur C. Clarke

“like everything that was worth doing, that would take time and practice.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

The goal of the future is full unemployment

— Arthur C. Clarke

Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.

— Arthur C. Clarke

The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.

— Arthur C. Clarke

I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.

— Arthur C. Clarke

SETI is probably the most important quest of our time , and it amazes me that governments and corporations are not supporting…

— Arthur C. Clarke

The exploration of the planets is now closer to us in time than the exploration of Africa by Stanley and Livingstone.

— Arthur C. Clarke

We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return ...

— Arthur C. Clarke

The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.

— Arthur C. Clarke

The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our…

— Arthur C. Clarke

They will have time enough, in those endless aeons, to attempt all things, and to gather all knowledge no Gods imagined by…

— Arthur C. Clarke

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

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

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

The entire sweep of human history from the dark ages into the unknown future was considerably less important at the moment than…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“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

I think in the long run the money that s been put into the space program is one of the best investments…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“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

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

I also believe - and hope - that politics and economics will cease to be as important in the future as they…

— Arthur C. Clarke

A precondition for being a science fiction writer other than an interest in the future is that, an interest - at least…

— Arthur C. Clarke

The choice, as Wells once said, is the Universe-or nothing. . . . The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Trying to predict the future is a discouraging and hazardous occupation. If by some miracle a prophet could describe the future exactly…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“To be a science fiction writer you must be interested in the future and you must feel that the future will be…

— Arthur C. Clarke

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

“One thing seems certain. Our galaxy is now in the brief springtime of its life—a springtime made glorious by such brilliant blue-white…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“Much of the colony’s musical experimenting was, quite consciously, concerned with what might be called “time span.” What was the briefest note…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“Unlike the animals, who knew only the present, Man had acquired a past; and he was beginning to grope toward a future.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

I've been saying for a long time that I'm hoping to find intelligent life in Washington.

— Arthur C. Clarke

There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men…

— Arthur C. Clarke

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

The one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will be utterly fantastic.

— Arthur C. Clarke

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

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

The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured.

— Arthur C. Clarke

“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

To find anything comparable with our forthcoming ventures into space, we must go back far beyond Columbus, far beyond Odysseus-far, indeed, beyond…

— Arthur C. Clarke