Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

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

Technology, Magic, Advanced

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

Earth, Ocean, Call

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

Good, Done, Through

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?
Arthur C. Clarke

True, Idea, Youth

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

Religion, God, Her

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

Impossible, Possible, Beyond

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
Arthur C. Clarke

Religion, History, Greatest

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

Alone, Sometimes, Universe

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

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke

Impossible, Possible, Beyond

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

Good, May, Impossible

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
Arthur C. Clarke

Politics, Power, Give

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

Astrology, Skeptical

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

Science, Impossible, Wrong

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

Science, Read, Stories

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

Funny, Best, Honesty

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

Patriotism, Men, True

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

Fact, Hopeful, Wave

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

Life, Best, Here

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

Age, Future, May

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

Nature, Human, Show

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

Value, Survival, Proven

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

Thinking, Worth, Questions

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

Computers, Reading, Computer

The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.
Arthur C. Clarke

Real, Beginning, Century

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: December 16, 1917

Died: March 19, 2008

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