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 Copy Share Image
God said, 'Cancel Program GENESIS.' The universe ceased to exist. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Deep beneath the surface of the Sun, enormous forces were gathering. At any moment, the energies of a million hydrogen bombs might… — 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
“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 Copy Share Image
The best proof that there's intelligent life in the universe is that it hasn't come here. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence—or even in life. Both may be random… — 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
When you finally understand the universe, it will not only be stranger than you imagine, it will be stranger than you can… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. — 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