Arthur C Clarke Quotes

The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.

Arthur C Clarke

No trilogy should have more than four books.

Arthur C Clarke

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

Arthur C Clarke

Astronomy, as nothing else can do, teaches men humility.

Arthur C Clarke

The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers — and thermonuclear weapons.

Arthur C Clarke

Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.

Arthur C Clarke

Sometimes when I'm in a bookstore or library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am seized by a powerful desire to read all the books, one by one.

Arthur C Clarke

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

Arthur C Clarke

In this single galaxy of our's, there are eighty-seven thousand million suns.In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting to label and classify all the grains of sand in all the deserts of the world. It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man.

Arthur C Clarke

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence

Arthur C Clarke

No communication technology has ever disappeared but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.

Arthur C Clarke

The best proof of intelligent life in space is that it hasnt come here.

Arthur C Clarke

The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for their future, not our past

Arthur C Clarke

We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return.

Arthur C Clarke

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.

Arthur C Clarke

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C Clarke

In my life, I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not an achievement for its own sake - can possibly have the same lasting value. For when your life is over if you can say I have learned and I have loved, you will also be able to say I have been happy.

Arthur C Clarke

When you finally understand the universe, it will not only be stranger than you imagine, it will be stronger than you can imagine.

Arthur C Clarke

The best proof that there's intelligent life in the universe is that it hasn't come here.

Arthur C Clarke

Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God.

Arthur C Clarke