Arthur C. Clarke quotes

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
- Arthur C. Clarke

The future is not to be forecast, but created.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Behind every man now alive stand 30 ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.
- Arthur C. Clarke

I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.
- Arthur C. Clarke

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
- Arthur C. Clarke

I will not be afraid because I understand...And understanding is happiness.
- Arthur C. Clarke

My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.'
- Arthur C. Clarke

If the artist did not know his goal, even the most miraculous of tools could not find it for him.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Guns are the crutches of the impotent.
- Arthur C. Clarke

A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Science demands patience.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Only feeble minds are paralyzed by facts.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.
- Arthur C. Clarke

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run — and often in the short one — the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.
- Arthur C. Clarke

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 non-existence of Zeus or Thor — but they have few followers now.
- Arthur C. Clarke

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference we should each be treated with appropriate respect.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Science is the only religion of mankind.
- Arthur C. Clarke

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God--but to create him.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
- Arthur C. Clarke

I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming.
- Arthur C. Clarke