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Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

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

Biography

Author Profession: Writer
Nationality: English
Born: December 16, 1917
Died: March 19, 2008

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

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

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

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

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

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