« All More Quotes · Arthur C. Clarke's Page
More Quotes by Arthur C. Clarke
- 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…
- It will be possible in a few more years to build radio controlled rockets which can be steered into such orbits beyond the limits of…
- One orbit, with a radius of 42,000 kilometers, has a period of exactly 24 hours. A body in such an orbit, if its plane coincided…
- Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.
- All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater…
- No trilogy should have more than four books.
- Mars is the next frontier, what the Wild West was, what America was 500 years ago. It's time to strike out anew....Mars is where the…
- As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful.
- The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.
- After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often…
- What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
- 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,…
- And because, in all the Galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers in the fields…
- 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,…
- Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.
- 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,…
- Religion is a by-product of fear. For much of human history it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than…
More More Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle