Magic's just science that we don't understand yet. Arthur C. Clarke More Quotes by Arthur C. Clarke More Quotes From Arthur C. Clarke You don't believe in organized religion, yet a major theme in so many of your works seems to be a quest for God. Arthur C. Clarke questsbelievereligion Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. Arthur C. Clarke advanced-technologymagictechnology Guns are the crutches of the impotent. Arthur C. Clarke crutchesgun When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation. Arthur C. Clarke eyeballsrelystatistics Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children. Arthur C. Clarke icefirechildren Many, and some of the most pressing, of our terrestrial problems can be solved only by going into space. Long before it was a vanishing commodity, the wilderness as the preservation of the world was proclaimed by Thoreau. In the new wilderness of the Solar System may lie the future preservation of mankind. Arthur C. Clarke futurespacelying 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 minoritiesintelligentreal The best proof of intelligent life in space is that it hasn't come here. Arthur C. Clarke proofintelligentspace The truth, as always, will be far stranger. Arthur C. Clarke stranger Creationism, perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American public. Arthur C. Clarke perniciouscreationismintellectual Attempting to define science fiction is an undertaking almost as difficult, though not so popular, as trying to define pornography... In both pornography and SF, the problem lies in knowing exactly where to draw the line. Arthur C. Clarke knowingtryinglying Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. Arthur C. Clarke computerreadingsex I'm sometimes asked how I would like to be remembered. I've had a diverse career as a writer, underwater explorer, space promoter and science populariser. Of all these, I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well. Arthur C. Clarke careersspaceimagination Look, whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There is always a last time for everything.) Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out. Arthur C. Clarke starseyeheaven I have encountered a few "creationists" and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide whether they were really mad or only pretending to be mad. If I was a religious person, I would consider creationism nothing less than blasphemy. Do its adherents imagine that God is a cosmic hoaxer who has created the whole vast fossil record for the sole purpose of misleading humankind? Arthur C. Clarke niceintelligentreligious The Earth would only have to move a few million kilometers sunward-or starward-for the delicate balance of climate to be destroyed. The Antarctic icecap would melt and flood all low-lying land; or the oceans would freeze and the whole world would be locked in eternal winter. Just a nudge in either direction would be enough. Arthur C. Clarke oceanlyingmoving 1. 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 impossible-thingstechnologypast Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our world. Whatsoever life we meet will be as strange and alien as the nightmare creatures of the ocean abyss, or of the insect empire whose horrors are normally hidden from us by their microscopic scale. Arthur C. Clarke oceaneyeanimal If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns. Arthur C. Clarke billionshundredsun Good morning, Dr. Chandra. This is Hal. I am ready for my first lesson. Arthur C. Clarke drslessonsmorning
