Perhaps no other year before or since 1984 has been awaited with such eager anticipation. Arthur C. Clarke More Quotes by Arthur C. Clarke More Quotes From Arthur C. Clarke Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything. Arthur C. Clarke expertsknowsmean 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 educationalinspirationalmen Science demands patience. Arthur C. Clarke demand All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest. Arthur C. Clarke questsappreciationhappiness Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence Arthur C. Clarke malevolenceincompetenceattributes The crossing of space ... may do much to turn men's minds outwards and away from their present tribal squabbles. In this sense, the rocket, far from being one of the destroyers of civilisation, may provide the safety-value that is needed to preserve it. Arthur C. Clarke safetyspacemen The choice, as Wells once said, is the Universe-or nothing. . . . The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds is a stupendous one; but if we fail to meet it, the story of our race will be drawing to its close. Humanity will have turned its back upon the still untrodden heights and will be descending again the long slope that stretches, across a thousand million years of time, down to the shores of the primeval sea. Arthur C. Clarke futurespacerace The creation of wealth is certainly not to be despised, but in the long run the only human activities really worthwhile are the search for knowledge, and the creation of beauty. This is beyond argument, the only point of debate is which comes first. Arthur C. Clarke runninglongfirsts Sometimes a decision has to be made by a single individual, who has the authority to enforce it. That's why you need a captain. You can't run a ship by a committee-at least not all the time. Arthur C. Clarke decisionrunningneeds 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 businessinspirationalscience It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him. Arthur C. Clarke atheistgodfear One theory which can no longer be taken very seriously is that UFOs are interstellar spaceships. Arthur C. Clarke spaceshipstheorytaken Deep beneath the surface of the Sun, enormous forces were gathering. At any moment, the energies of a million hydrogen bombs might burst forth in the awesome explosion.... Climbing at millions of miles per hour, an invisible fireball many times the size of Earth would leap from the Sun and head out across space. Arthur C. Clarke hydrogen-bombclimbingspace Now, before you make a movie, you have to have a script, and before you have a script, you have to have a story; though some avant-garde directors have tried to dispense with the latter item, you'll find their work only at art theaters. Arthur C. Clarke avant-gardedirectorsart It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with the preconceived idea that what they are investigating is impossible. Arthur C. Clarke conservativemissingideas We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins. Arthur C. Clarke spaceseathinking Isaac Asimov is, in reality, based on something I had invented a few years previously. Arthur C. Clarke isaacrealityyears I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her. Arthur C. Clarke insightfulatheistbelieve It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation. Arthur C. Clarke refutationpossibilitystatistics Invade me now, my ruthless friend, Arthur C. Clarke feardarkrunning
