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Men Quotes by Arthur C. Clarke
- We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a…
- The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
- It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true…
- I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write…
- It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time…
- If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods.
- The crossing of space ... may do much to turn men's minds outwards and away from their present tribal squabbles. In this sense, the rocket,…
- To find anything comparable with our forthcoming ventures into space, we must go back far beyond Columbus, far beyond Odysseus-far, indeed, beyond the first ape-man.…
- Astronomy, as nothing else can do, teaches men humility.
- Before the current decade ends, fee-paying passengers will be experiencing suborbital flights aboard privately funded vehicles. . . . It won't be too long before…
- If man survives for as long as the least successful of the dinosaurs-those creatures whom we often deride as nature's failures-then we may be certain…
- Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.
- In this universe the night was falling; the shadows were lengthening towards an east that would not know another dawn. But elsewhere the stars were…
- 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…
- The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths.
- No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time. As their material conditions improve, men raise their sights and become discontented with power…
- There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.
- 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,…
- If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.
- Now I understand,” said the last man.
- It was a pity that there was no radar to guide one across the trackless seas of life. Every man had to find his own…
- But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.
- He was moving through a new order of creation, of which few men had ever dreamed. Beyond the realms of sea and land and air…
- A wise man once said that all human activity is a form of play. And the highest form of play is the search for Truth,…
- In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [...] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting to label and…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
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- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
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