Arthur C. Clarke quotes

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to venture a little past them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.

Arthur C. Clarke

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases:
1- It's completely impossible.
2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing.
3- I said it was a good idea all along.

Arthur C. Clarke

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

Arthur C. Clarke

How inappropriate to call this planet earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

Arthur C. Clarke

Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is intelligent life in outer space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever, one day we will overhear it.

Arthur C. Clarke

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

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 perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

Arthur C. Clarke

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

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 man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40, and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?.

Arthur C. Clarke

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

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 am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.

Arthur C. Clarke

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Arthur C. Clarke

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

Arthur C. Clarke

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.

Arthur C. Clarke

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 is very probably wrong.

Arthur C. Clarke

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

Arthur C. Clarke

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

Arthur C. Clarke

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.

Arthur C. Clarke

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Arthur C. Clarke

The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.

Arthur C. Clarke

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

Arthur C. Clarke

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

Arthur C. Clarke

I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.

Arthur C. Clarke

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.

Arthur C. Clarke

The piece of equipment I'm most found off is my telescope. The other night I had a superb view of the moon.

Arthur C. Clarke

The only way to discover the limits of the possibilities is to go beyond them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke

The only real problem in life is what to do next.

Arthur C. Clarke

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

Arthur C. Clarke

But the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke