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Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

Arthur C. Clarke Quotes.

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
Until we get rid of religion, we won’t be able to conduct the search for God.
Arthur C. Clarke
The future is not to be forecast, but created.
Arthur C. Clarke
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
Arthur C. Clarke
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
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
No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.
Arthur C. Clarke
I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her.
Arthur C. Clarke
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
Arthur C. Clarke
One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn’t require religion at all.
Arthur C. Clarke
The only real problem in life is what to do next.
Arthur C. Clarke
I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
Arthur C. Clarke
If children have interests, then education happens.
Arthur C. Clarke
Getting information from the internet is like getting a glass of water from the Niagara Falls.
Arthur C. Clarke
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
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.
Arthur C. Clarke
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
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
The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.
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
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.
Arthur C. Clarke
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
Arthur C. Clarke
I’m sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It’s just been too intelligent to come here.
Arthur C. Clarke
Civilization will reach maturity only when it learns to value diversity of character and of ideas.
Arthur C. Clarke
I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.
Arthur C. Clarke
The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
Arthur C. Clarke
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
Any path to knowledge is a path to God-or Reality, whichever word one prefers to use
Arthur C. Clarke
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
Arthur C. Clarke
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
The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That’s why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.
Arthur C. Clarke
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.
Arthur C. Clarke
One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.
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
What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy’s point of view.
Arthur C. Clarke