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Science Quotes by Arthur C. Clarke
- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
- Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
- Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
- If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he…
- 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…
- As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.
- One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the…
- 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…
- At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved…
- Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.
- 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…
- 'The Devil in the Dark' impressed me because it presented the idea, unusual in science fiction then and now, that something weird, and even dangerous,…
- In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up.
- Using material ferried up by rockets, it would be possible to construct a "space station" in ... orbit. The station could be provided with living…
- Only small minds are impressed by large numbers.
- Science is the only religion of mankind.
- 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,…
- In accordance with the terms of the Clarke-Asimov treaty, the second-best science writer dedicates this book to the second-best science-fiction writer. [dedication to Isaac Asimov…
- 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,…
- Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the…
- Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.
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