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It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand. — Arthur C. Clarke

A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide. — Arthur C. Clarke

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

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

But in a subtler fashion. Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as — 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

What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy's point of view. — 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

Belief in God is apparently a psychological arti-fact of mammalian reproduction. — 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

Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity? — 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; soon
it 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

You don't believe in organized religion, yet a major theme in so many of your works seems to be a quest for God. — Arthur C. Clarke

Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself. — Arthur C. Clarke