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Any Quotes by Arthur C. Clarke
- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
- The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing…
- If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods.
- At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved…
- Trying to predict the future is a discouraging and hazardous occupation. If by some miracle a prophet could describe the future exactly as it was…
- I suspect that religion is a necessary evil in the childhood of our particular species. And that's one of the interesting things about contact with…
- Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral
- Finally, I would like to assure my many Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim friends that I am sincerely happy that the religion which Chance…
- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
- Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic.
- Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our world.…
- I believe any malevolent supercivilisation would have rapidly self-destructed as we may be in the process of doing ourselves. If we do have contact, physical…
- Deep beneath the surface of the Sun, enormous forces were gathering. At any moment, the energies of a million hydrogen bombs might burst forth in…
- People go through four stages before any revolutionary development: 1. It's nonsense, don't waste my time. 2. It's interesting, but not important. 3. I always…
- Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
- Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of…
- It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference. Occasionally, of course,…
- Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity.
- 1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he…
- There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism,…
- But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.
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