Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
You will find men like him in all of the world's religions. They know that we represent reason and science, and, however… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“That requires as much power as a small radio transmitter--and rather similar skills to operate. For it's the application of the power,… — 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
The Earth would only have to move a few million kilometers sunward-or starward-for the delicate balance of climate to be destroyed. The… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Many, and some of the most pressing, of our terrestrial problems can be solved only by going into space. Long before it… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium. — 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
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
One orbit, with a radius of 42,000 kilometers, has a period of exactly 24 hours. A body in such an orbit, if… — 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
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
Please help keep the world clean: others may wish to use it. Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong… — 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
We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The realisation that our small planet is only one of many worlds gives mankind the perspective it needs to realise sooner that… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The West needs to relearn what the rest of the world has never forgotten - that there is nothing sinful in leisure… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I doubt if there is a single field of study so theoretical, so remote from what is laughingly called everyday life, that… — 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