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The one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will be utterly fantastic. — Arthur C. Clarke

For if not true, they are well imagined... — Arthur C. Clarke

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

My God
it's full of stars! — 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

Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses. — Arthur C. Clarke

Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own? — Arthur C. Clarke

One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion. — 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

It seemed altogether unfair and unreasonable that the sky should be so hard. — Arthur C. Clarke

All bureaucracies are the same. They drain the life out of the truly creative people and develop mindless paper-pushers as their critical mass. — Arthur C. Clarke

Kalevala, whereas — Arthur C. Clarke

No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time. — Arthur C. Clarke

No trilogy should have more than four books. — Arthur C. Clarke

There's an ancient philosophical joke that's much subtler than it seems. Question: Why is the Universe here? Answer: Where else would it be? — Arthur C. Clarke

Only feeble minds are paralyzed by facts. — 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

Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic. — Arthur C. Clarke

Do we use models to help us find the truth? Or do we know the truth first, and then develop the mathematics to explain it? — Arthur C. Clarke

It is hard to draw any line between compassion and love. — Arthur C. Clarke

SETI is probably the most important quest of our time , and it amazes me that governments and corporations are not supporting it sufficiently. — 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

God was just this black void that we cried into. — Arthur C. Clarke

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

I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical. — Arthur C. Clarke

Mystery was piling upon mystery, and that for all his efforts he was getting further and further from any understanding of the truths he sought. — Arthur C. Clarke

President of the Society for Creative Anachronisms. — Arthur C. Clarke

Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do? — Arthur C. Clarke

But for goodness sake, Frank - forget you're an engineer, and simply enjoy the view. — Arthur C. Clarke

Those meaningless and unanswerable questions the minds keep returning to, like a tongue exploring a broken tooth. — Arthur C. Clarke

Michael O'Toole had no difficulty recognizing which questions in life should be answered by physics and which ones by religion. — Arthur C. Clarke

I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do. — Arthur C. Clarke

Adamski's Disease. — 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

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

Civilization will reach maturity only when it learns to value diversity of character and of ideas. — Arthur C. Clarke

This would involve disconnection - the computer equivalent of death. Despite — Arthur C. Clarke

Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future. — Arthur C. Clarke

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

One's first existence was a precious gift which would never be repeated. — Arthur C. Clarke

The space elevator will be built about 50 years after everyone stops laughing. — Arthur C. Clarke

Tranquillity was not a state of mind that could be sustained for long. — Arthur C. Clarke

The exploration of the planets is now closer to us in time than the exploration of Africa by Stanley and Livingstone. — Arthur C. Clarke

Man's beliefs were his own affair, so long as they did not interfere with the liberty of others. — Arthur C. Clarke

I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well. — Arthur C. Clarke

The timeless instant passed. — Arthur C. Clarke

You can't have action without reaction. — 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

The core of Jupiter, forever beyond human reach, was a diamond as big as the Earth. — Arthur C. Clarke

Cassini - who discovered Japetus in 1671 - also observed that it was six times brighter on one side of its orbit than the other. — 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

If he was indeed mad, his delusions were beautifully organized. — Arthur C. Clarke

Chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists. — Arthur C. Clarke

Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological — 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

Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many. — Arthur C. Clarke

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

How foolish that expectation had been! He knew now that one might as well hope to see the wind, or speculate about the true shape of fire. — Arthur C. Clarke

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here. — Arthur C. Clarke

God said, 'Cancel Program GENESIS.' The universe ceased to exist. — Arthur C. Clarke

Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference; we should each be treated with appropriate respect. — Arthur C. Clarke

all the world's religions cannot be right, and they know it. Sooner or later man has to learn the truth: — Arthur C. Clarke

Stormgren had walked to his desk and was fidgeting with his famous uranium paperweight. He was not nervous - merely undecided. — Arthur C. Clarke

Myron, like countless NCO's before him, had discovered the ideal compromise between power and responsibility. — Arthur C. Clarke

Democracy, frequently defined as Individual greed, moderated by an efficient but not too zealous government. — Arthur C. Clarke

Reliability depended on redundancy and automatic checking, and human intervention was much more likely to do harm than good. — Arthur C. Clarke

Hello, Dave," said Hal presently. "Have you found the trouble?" This — 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

For there was no vessel - at least of Man's making - anywhere between her and the infinitely distant stars. — Arthur C. Clarke

Nothing is deader than yesterday's science-fiction - and Verne belongs to the day before yesterday. — Arthur C. Clarke

I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself. — Arthur C. Clarke

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Magic's just science that we don't understand yet. — Arthur C. Clarke

Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out. — Arthur C. Clarke

throughout the flight, but there — Arthur C. Clarke

If I didn't exist, I would have invented myself. — 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

Futilitarianism. — Arthur C. Clarke

We're particularly anxious to get our hands on Pioneer 10 - the first man-made object to escape from the Solar System. — Arthur C. Clarke

Forty-one was a very special number, the initial integer in the longest continuous string of quadratic primes. — Arthur C. Clarke

In all the universe there is nothing more precious than mind. — Arthur C. Clarke

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. — Arthur C. Clarke

Only small minds are impressed by large numbers. — Arthur C. Clarke

Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly. — Arthur C. Clarke

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

Don't believe anything I've told you - merely because I said it. — Arthur C. Clarke

Please leave me alone; let me go on to the stars. — 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

We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return ... — Arthur C. Clarke

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

Bowman could bear no more. He jerked out the last unit, and Hal was silent forever. — Arthur C. Clarke

If we are unable to download, remember us. — Arthur C. Clarke

No on of intelligence resents the inevitable. — Arthur C. Clarke

It was idle to speculate, to build pyramids of surmise on a foundation of ignorance. — Arthur C. Clarke

Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity. — Arthur C. Clarke