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 When one has to ask, "Am I really in love?" the answer is always "No". Arthur C. Clarke asks answers 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 changing-environment dinosaurs weapons I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have transmitted to me. Arthur C. Clarke function behavior religious Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly. Arthur C. Clarke folly changed past They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed. Arthur C. Clarke omnipotence boredom succeed God said, 'Cancel Program GENESIS.' The universe ceased to exist. Arthur C. Clarke genesis program said We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return... The coming of the rocket brought to an end a million years of isolation... the childhood of our race was over and history as we know it began. Arthur C. Clarke race past years Somewhere in me is a curiosity sensor. I want to know what's over the next hill. You know, people can live longer without food than without information. Without information, you'd go crazy. Arthur C. Clarke crazy curiosity people Space can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered. Arthur C. Clarke space limits 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 stars truth science Much blood has also been spilled on the carpet in attempts to distinguish between science fiction and fantasy. I have suggested an operational definition: science fiction is something that COULD happen - but usually you wouldn't want it to. Fantasy is something that COULDN'T happen - though often you only wish that it could. Arthur C. Clarke wish blood fiction In this universe the night was falling; the shadows were lengthening towards an east that would not know another dawn. But elsewhere the stars were still young and the light of morning lingered; and along the path he once had followed, Man would one day go again. Arthur C. Clarke stars morning fall 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 powerful desire book The 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 foundation bombs men Space can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered. When our race has reached its ultimate achievements, and the stars themselves are scattered no more widely than the seed of Adam, even then we shall still be like ants crawling on the face of the Earth. The ants have covered the world, but have they conquered it - for what do their countless colonies know of it, or of each other? Arthur C. Clarke space stars race Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction. Arthur C. Clarke artifacts psychological belief They will have time enough, in those endless aeons, to attempt all things, and to gather all knowledge... no Gods imagined by our minds have ever possessed the powers they will command... But for all that, they may envy us, basking in the bright afterglow of Creation; for we knew the Universe when it was young. Arthur C. Clarke envy mind may No trilogy should have more than four books. Arthur C. Clarke should-have writing book He 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 video real world Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of doom without any sense of apprehension. The man who looks at the onrushing tidal wave, the descending avalanche, or the spinning funnel of the tornado, yet makes no attempt to flee, is not necessarily paralyzed with fright or resigned to an unavoidable fate. He may simply be unable to believe that the message of his eyes concerns him personally. It is all happening to somebody else. Arthur C. Clarke real fear believe
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