01UndatedTwo possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.Arthur C. Clarke / quote ↗
02UndatedI'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.Arthur C. Clarke / quote ↗
03UndatedA faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.Arthur C. Clarke / quote ↗
04UndatedBut please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.Arthur C. Clarke / quote ↗
05UndatedBefore 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.Arthur C. Clarke / quote ↗
06UndatedAfter 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.Arthur C. Clarke / quote ↗
08UndatedHe 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.Arthur C. Clarke / quote ↗
09UndatedOne of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.Arthur C. Clarke / quote ↗
10UndatedThe rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths.Arthur C. Clarke / quote ↗
11UndatedScience 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.Arthur C. Clarke / quote ↗
12UndatedMy favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelliArthur C. Clarke / quote ↗
13UndatedHe found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world.Arthur C. Clarke / quote ↗
14UndatedThe only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.Arthur C. Clarke / quote ↗
15UndatedThere 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.Arthur C. Clarke / quote ↗
16UndatedAny sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.Arthur C. Clarke / quote ↗
17UndatedHow inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean.Arthur C. Clarke / quote ↗
19UndatedWhen 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 / quote ↗
20Undated1. 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.2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.Arthur C. Clarke / quote ↗
21UndatedIt is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference. Occasionally, of course, an observation can shatter the frame and force the construction of a new one, but that is extremely rare. Galileos and Einsteins seldom appear more than once per century, which is just as well for the equanimity of mankind.Arthur C. Clarke / quote ↗
22UndatedMeteorites don’t fall on the Earth. They fall on the Sun and the Earth gets in the way.” - John W. CampbellArthur C. Clarke / quote ↗
23UndatedThere is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence—or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of its operations like the beautiful patterns on a butterfly's wings. The insect would fly just as well without them.Arthur C. Clarke / quote ↗
24Undated…once science had declared a thing possible, there was no escape from its eventual realization…Arthur C. Clarke / quote ↗
