Arthur C Clarke quotes

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.

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

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

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

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

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

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.

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

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

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

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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