Arthur C. Clarke

The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Training was one thing, reality another.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Open the pod bay doors, Hal.

— Arthur C. Clarke

“When in doubt, say nothing and move on.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

No one of intelligence resents the inevitable.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Science is the only religion of mankind.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Religion is a byproduct of fear,

— Arthur C. Clarke

“Magic is just science we don't understand yet”

— Arthur C. Clarke

Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.

— Arthur C. Clarke

“The limits of possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there.

— Arthur C. Clarke

“Pure coincidence, of course, but a sensible man makes coincidences work for him.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

When one has to ask, "Am I really in love?" the answer is always "No".

— Arthur C. Clarke

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

— Arthur C. Clarke

When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation.

— Arthur C. Clarke

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

— Arthur C. Clarke

“Didn’t somebody once say ‘Politics is the art of the possible’?” “Quite true—which is why only second-rate minds go into it. Genius…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains; they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented.

— Arthur C. Clarke

The piece of equipment I'm most found off is my telescope. The other night I had a superb view of the moon.

— Arthur C. Clarke

“It was fascinating to watch that agile mind trying one opening after another, testing and rejecting all the theories that Stormgren himself…

— Arthur C. Clarke

I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.

— Arthur C. Clarke

There is the possibility that humankind can outgrow its infantile tendencies, as I suggested in 'Childhood's End.' But it is amazing how…

— Arthur C. Clarke

The West needs to relearn what the rest of the world has never forgotten - that there is nothing sinful in leisure…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“I think that the people that say we will never develop computer intelligence — they merely prove that some biological systems don't…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“They no longer formed a single group, united in the common cause of survival. Now their lives had diverged into a score…

— 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

“His mind wandered, seeking other examples. People—particularly older ones—still spoke of putting film into a camera, or gas into a car. Even…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“Even on Earth, the first steps in this direction had been taken. There were millions of men, doomed in earlier ages, who…

— Arthur C. Clarke

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

“And on far-off Earth, Dr. Carlisle Perera had as yet told no one how he had wakened from a restless sleep with…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“Even more alarming were persistent rumors that someone had smuggled an Emotion Amplifier on board 'Mentor'. The so-called joy machines were banned…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“Everybody on this island has one ambition, which may be summed up very simply. It is to do something, however small it…

— Arthur C. Clarke

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“Bowman was aware of some changes in his behavior patterns; it would have been absurd to expect anything else in the circumstances.…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“There were other thinkers, Bowman also found, who held even more exotic views. They did not believe that really advanced beings would…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“And in its sky was such a sun as no opium eater could ever have imagined in his wildest dreams. Too hot…

— Arthur C. Clarke

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

“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

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

“For more than a hundred years the Republic of South Africa had been the center of racial strife. Men of good will…

— Arthur C. Clarke