Sir Arthur Charles Clarke CBE FRAS was an English science-fiction writer, science writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host. He co-wrote the screenplay for the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, one of the most influential films of all time. Profoundly inspirational Arthur C Clarke quotes will challenge the way you think, and make your life worth living.
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Famous Arthur C Clarke Quotes
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It’s completely impossible. 2- It’s possible, but it’s not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along. — Arthur C. Clarke
The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. — Arthur C. Clarke
I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her. — Arthur C. Clarke
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
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
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
I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about. — Arthur C. Clarke
New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along! — Arthur C. Clarke
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible. — Arthur C. Clarke
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. — Arthur C. Clarke
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. — Arthur C. Clarke
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. — Arthur C. Clarke
Sometimes I think we’re alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we’re not. In either case the idea is quite staggering. — Arthur C. Clarke
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. — Arthur C. Clarke
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society. — Arthur C. Clarke
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power. — Arthur C. Clarke
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
I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical. — Arthur C. Clarke
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. — Arthur C. Clarke
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him. — Arthur C. Clarke
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean. — Arthur C. Clarke
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. — Arthur C. Clarke
The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. — Arthur C. Clarke
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
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. — Arthur C. Clarke
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
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