Quotes by Arthur C. Clarke

“Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you dont go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids wont laugh at you.”

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

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

Im sure the universe is full of intelligent life. Its just been too intelligent to come here.

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.

After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.

Humor was the enemy of desire.

He did not know that the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as he looked at the emaciated body he felt a dim disquiet that was the ancestor of sadness.

One of the greatest tragedies in mankinds entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.

The rash assertion that God made man in His own image is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths.

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.

My favourite definition of an intellectual: Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelli

He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

There were, however, a few exceptions.One was Norma Dodsworth, the poet, who had not unpleasantly drunk but had been sensible enough to pass out before any violent action proved necessary. He had been deposited, not very gently, on the lawn, where it was hoped that a hyena would give him a rude awakening. For all practical purposes he could, therefore, be regarded as absent.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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

Magics just science that we dont understand yet.