Arthur C. Clarke

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I…

— Arthur C. Clarke

We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and…

— Arthur C. Clarke

I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have…

— Arthur C. Clarke

I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.

— Arthur C. Clarke

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

Astronomy, as nothing else can do, teaches men humility.

— 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

“The universe is full of energy, but much of it is at equilibrium. At equilibrium no energy can flow, and therefore it…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“Here the trees surrounded them with an invisible, anechoic blanket, so that every word seemed sucked into silence the moment it was…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“I’m a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.”

— 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

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

— 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

“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

Now I understand,” said the last man.

— Arthur C. Clarke

It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with…

— Arthur C. Clarke

But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.

— Arthur C. Clarke

We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to…

— 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

“Could we go into your room?" she asked. "I knew it. I knew it," he said, spinning around and sliding quickly toward…

— Arthur C. Clarke

The numbers of distinct human societies or nations, when our race is twice its present age, may be far greater than the…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“For Jan was still suffering from the romantic illusion–the cause of so much misery and so much poetry–that every man has only…

— Arthur C. Clarke

The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.

— 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

Isaac Asimov is, in reality, based on something I had invented a few years previously.

— Arthur C. Clarke