Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

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 more enduring.

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.

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

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.

Humor was the enemy of desire.

He did not know that the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as he looked at the emaciated body he felt a dim disquiet that was the ancestor of sadness.

They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed.

My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.

[Sources and Acknowledgements: Chapter 19]

The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths.

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 nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.

He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean.

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.

There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence - or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of its operations like the beautiful patterns on a butterfly's wings. The insect would fly just as well without them.

Meteorites don’t fall on the Earth. They fall on the Sun and the Earth gets in the way.” - John W. Campbell

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