Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

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

"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 in Honesty quotes.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
-Arthur C. Clarke in Technology quotes.

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

"For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert."
-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 only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."
-Arthur C. Clarke

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

"Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all."
-Arthur C. Clarke

"But the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."
-Arthur C. Clarke

"I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books."
-Arthur C. Clarke

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

"At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years."
-Arthur C. Clarke

"As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying."
-Arthur C. Clarke

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

"If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative."
-Arthur C. Clarke

"CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power."
-Arthur C. Clarke

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

"The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space."
-Arthur C. Clarke

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

"It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars."
-Arthur C. Clarke

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

"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 non-existence of Zeus or Thor - but they have few followers now."
-Arthur C. Clarke

"We are just tenants on this world. We have just been given a new lease, and a warning from the landlord."
-Arthur C. Clarke

"A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - indeed, inevitable - the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody."
-Arthur C. Clarke