Civilization will reach maturity only when it learns to value diversity of character and of ideas. Arthur C. Clarke More Quotes by Arthur C. Clarke More Quotes From Arthur C. Clarke There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. Arthur C. Clarke hopeful cynical symbolism There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism, in fact you might say that science fiction is escape into reality... It's a fiction which does concern itself with real issues: the origin of man; our future. In fact I can't think of any form of literature which is more concerned with real issues, reality. Arthur C. Clarke real men thinking Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference we should each be treated with appropriate respect. Arthur C. Clarke diversity differences fundamentals Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it. Arthur C. Clarke intelligent space forever 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 communication america years I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. Arthur C. Clarke hype giving-up president Before the current decade ends, fee-paying passengers will be experiencing suborbital flights aboard privately funded vehicles. . . . It won't be too long before bright young men and women set their eyes on careers in Earth orbit and say: "I want to work 200 kilometers from home-straight up!" Arthur C. Clarke future eye home 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 patriotic stars men Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses. Arthur C. Clarke atheist mind religion It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand. Arthur C. Clarke barbarians mark A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom. Arthur C. Clarke boredom reading book . . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull. Arthur C. Clarke long-ago would-be dull Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological Arthur C. Clarke interest behavior 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. Arthur C. Clarke atheism religious religion Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out. Arthur C. Clarke overhead going-out stars What is becoming more interesting than the myths themselves has been the study of how the myths were constructed from sparse or unpromising facts indeed, sometimes from no facts in a kind of mute conspiracy of longing, very rarely under anybody's conscious control. Arthur C. Clarke becoming facts interesting This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one. Arthur C. Clarke ironic future age The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation. Arthur C. Clarke space-flight aviation moon Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive. Arthur C. Clarke technology taken morning Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything. Arthur C. Clarke experts knows mean
