Arthur C. Clarke quotes - page 2

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets. (Arthur C. Clarke)
If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative. View quote
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Science is the only religion of mankind. View quote
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Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering. View quote
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There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded. View quote
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Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software. View quote
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Magic's just science that we don't understand yet. View quote
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Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything. View quote
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We always thought the living Earth was a thing of beauty. It isn't. Life has had to learn to defend itself against the planet's random geological savagery. View quote
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What is becoming more interesting than the myths themselves has been the study of how the myths were constructed from sparse or unpromising facts indeed, sometimes from no facts in a kind of mute conspiracy of longing, very rarely under anybody's conscious control. View quote
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The fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life - much less intelligence - beyond this Earth does not surprise or disappoint me in the least. Our technology must still be laughably primitive, we may be like jungle savages listening for the throbbing of tom-toms while the ether around them carries more words per second than they could utter in a lifetime. (Arthur C. Clarke)
I'm sometimes asked how I would like to be remembered. I've had a diverse career as a writer, underwater explorer, space promoter and science populariser. Of all these, I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well. View quote
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We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return... The coming of the rocket brought to an end a million years of isolation... the childhood of our race was over and history as we know it began. View quote
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As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying. View quote
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I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent. View quote
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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. View quote
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The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be. View quote
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We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up new laboratories in space. They are as much beyond our vision today as fire or electricity would be beyond the imagination of a fish. View quote
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It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything. View quote
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We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins. View quote
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Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out. (Arthur C. Clarke)
Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. View quote
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Science demands patience. View quote
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What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities. View quote
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All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest. View quote
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