Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.
Arthur C. Clarke

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

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

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

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

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
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

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Arthur C. Clarke

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


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.
Arthur C. Clarke

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

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!
Arthur C. Clarke

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

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.
Arthur C. Clarke

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

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software.
Arthur C. Clarke

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
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 greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
Arthur C. Clarke