Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

English - Writer December 16, 1917 - March 19, 2008

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

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

Arthur C. Clarke

Inspirational, Limits, Impossible, Way

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

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

Arthur C. Clarke

Inspirational, Limits, Impossible, Only

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 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, Man, Honesty, Measure, Tax

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

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke

Technology, Magic, Any, Advanced

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, Think, Universe, Space, Sometimes

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

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

Arthur C. Clarke

Knowledge, Thinking, Worth, Questions

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

Arthur C. Clarke

God, Create, Worship, May, Our, Him

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

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

Arthur C. Clarke

Funny, Intelligence, Value, Survival

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, Imagination, Ideas, Worth, New

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

Arthur C. Clarke

Religion, History, Tragedy, Morality

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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

Man, Youth, World, True, Things, Half

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, Day, Best, Space, Hide, Forever

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

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

Arthur C. Clarke

Nature, Ocean, Earth, Planet Earth, Call

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

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

Arthur C. Clarke

Believe, Astrology, Skeptical

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

Stars, Men, Patriotism, Small, Long

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

Arthur C. Clarke

Wave, Fact, Symbolism, Vacuum, Hopeful

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.

Arthur C. Clarke

Sex, Computers, Reading, Software

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Arthur C. Clarke

Impossible, Wrong, Possible, Right, He

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

Arthur C. Clarke

Nature, Human, Mercy, Against, Show

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, Impossible, Worth, Doing, Three

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

Arthur C. Clarke

Science, Politicians, Science Fiction

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, Possible, He

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

Future, Age, Attention, First, Little

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

Arthur C. Clarke

Technology, Society, Will, Out, Last

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

Arthur C. Clarke

God, Religion, Believe, Her, Very

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

Beginning, World, Will, Intelligent

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