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A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide.
— Arthur C. Clarke
The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths.
— Arthur C. Clarke
who is better off, the child with a mentor who knows and tells everything or the one whose teacher helps the child find her own answers?
— Arthur C. Clarke
The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Getting information from the internet is like getting a glass of water from the Niagara Falls.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Even a doomed man might reasonably be expected to take some slight interest in a few thousand square meters of gems. He
— Arthur C. Clarke
The universe must be full of voices, calling from star to star in a myriad tongues. One day we shall join that cosmic conversation.
— Arthur C. Clarke
So the problem of Evil never really existed. To expect the universe to be benevolent was like imagining one could always win at a game of pure chance.
— Arthur C. Clarke
he filled to perfection the classic recipe for a small boy: "a noise surrounded by dirt.
— Arthur C. Clarke
had often been said that the only thing that could unite Mankind was a threat from space.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Unlike the animals, who knew only the present, Man had acquired a past; and he was beginning to grope toward a future.
— Arthur C. Clarke
I am a HAL Nine Thousand computer Production Number 3. I became operational at the Hal Plant in Urbana, Illinois, on January 12, 1997.
— Arthur C. Clarke
That's still looking a long way ahead. For the present, you're the only person who should attempt communication. Agreed, Captain?
— Arthur C. Clarke
The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.
— Arthur C. Clarke
I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Can you sum up your ideas in less than - oh, a thousand bits?
— Arthur C. Clarke
I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
— Arthur C. Clarke
dying in an exciting situation is much better than living in a boring one.
— Arthur C. Clarke
How I envy them," said Colonel Jones. "Sometimes it's quite a relief to have something trivial to worry about.
— Arthur C. Clarke
You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Those meaningless and unanswerable questions the minds keep returning to, like a tongue exploring a broken tooth.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Personally, I refuse to drive a car - I won't have anything to do with any kind of transportation in which I can't read.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Any path to knowledge is a path to God-or Reality, whichever word one prefers to use
— Arthur C. Clarke
And as for you, Paul, I assured him that you could keep a secret for up to six days without apoplexy.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Hal remained a low-grade moron.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Hal's internal fault predictor could have made a mistake." "It's more
— Arthur C. Clarke
One's first existence was a precious gift which would never be repeated.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Ten kilometers away, the lights of New York glowed on the skyline like a dawn frozen in the act of breaking.
— 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
After the struggle for sheer existence, they had no energy left for a civilization.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Now, what did "feel" really mean to a computer? Another very good question, but hardly one to be considered at that particular moment. Then,
— Arthur C. Clarke
A gentle tickling on Floyd's wrist announced an incoming call.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Mammoths, building a signal to Mars, on the North American ice cap.
— Arthur C. Clarke
It was idle to speculate, to build pyramids of surmise on a foundation of ignorance.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Tranquillity was not a state of mind that could be sustained for long.
— Arthur C. Clarke
The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea, And still the sea is salt. A. E. HOUSMAN MORE POEMS
— Arthur C. Clarke
Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.
— Arthur C. Clarke
He wanted to close his eyes and shut out the pearly nothingness that surrounded him, but that was an act of a coward and he would not yield to it.
— Arthur C. Clarke
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
— Arthur C. Clarke
We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return ...
— Arthur C. Clarke
Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity.
— Arthur C. Clarke
If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Discovery was no longer a happy ship.
— Arthur C. Clarke
The recipe for a long, happy life: consult with old philosophers and young doctors,
consort with old friends and young women. — Arthur C. Clarke
This hydrogen was under such enormous pressure that it had become a metal.
— Arthur C. Clarke
As a matter of interest," he said,
— Arthur C. Clarke
an expressive phrase coined by a Princeton mathematician of the last century: "Wormholes in space.
— Arthur C. Clarke
He felt confident that when he pulled open the drawer of that desk, he would find a Gideon Bible inside it ... .
— Arthur C. Clarke
In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up.
— Arthur C. Clarke
A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be true.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Can the synthesis of man and machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded?
— Arthur C. Clarke
The core of Jupiter, forever beyond human reach, was a diamond as big as the Earth.
— Arthur C. Clarke
I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
— Arthur C. Clarke
What had been a perceived threat, a lien in a sense on future human behavior, was quickly reduced to a historical curiosity.
— Arthur C. Clarke
My name is Patricia Lauren Bordeaux, and I, like my creator before me, am a very lonely vampire.
— S.C. Parris
I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.
— Arthur C. Clarke
He had a suspicion of plausible answers; they were so often wrong.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Faith in one's own destiny was among the most valuable of the gifts which the gods could bestow upon a man,
— Arthur C. Clarke
On the placidly flowing river of time, he wished only to make a few ripples: he shrank from diverting its course.
— 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 memory of war was fading into the past as a nightmare vanishes with the dawn; soonit would lie outside the experience of all living men. — 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
And it was difficult to imagine what answer Earth could possibly send, except a tactfully sympathetic, "Good-bye.
— Arthur C. Clarke
The history of the Universe must be a mass of such disconnected threads, and no one could say which were important and which were trivial.
— Arthur C. Clarke
And as for the Council - tell it that a road that has once been opened cannot be closed again merely by passing a resolution.' The
— Arthur C. Clarke
I've been saying for a long time that I'm hoping to find intelligent life in Washington.
— Arthur C. Clarke
In a rare flash of humor, she had replied: Woody, a commander can be wrong, but never uncertain.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Forty-one was a very special number, the initial integer in the longest continuous string of quadratic primes.
— Arthur C. Clarke
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Interestingly enough, Aurthur C. Clarke once autographed a copy of his book "Rendezvous with Rama" for me.
— Frederick Lenz
Religion is a byproduct of fear.
— 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
There could be no ghosts upon a world that had never known life.
— Arthur C. Clarke
