Arthur C. Clarke Quotes - Page 2

The only real problem in life is what to do next.

Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God.

Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses.

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

It is vital to remember that information - in the sense of raw data - is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.

Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.

Getting information from the internet is like getting a glass of water from the Niagara Falls.

You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

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. Perhaps the adjective 'elderly' requires definition. In physics, mathematics, and astronautics it means over thirty; in the other disciplines, senile decay is sometimes postponed to the forties. There are, of course, glorious exceptions; but as every researcher just out of college knows, scientists of over fifty are good for nothing but board meetings, and should at all costs be kept out of the laboratory!

Only feeble minds are paralyzed by facts.

Religion is a byproduct of fear.

A wise man once said that all human activity is a form of play. And the highest form of play is the search for Truth, Beauty and Love. What more is needed? Should there be a ‘meaning’ as well, that will be a bonus? If we waste time looking for life’s meaning, we may have no time to live — or to play.

People go through four stages before any revolutionary development: 1. It's nonsense, don't waste my time. 2. It's interesting, but not important. 3. I always said it was a good idea. 4. I thought of it first.

Only small minds are impressed by large numbers.

I have never grown up, but I will never stop growing.

The one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will be utterly fantastic.

A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.

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.

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

Anything that is theoretically possible will be achieved in practice, no matter what the technical difficulties are, if it is desired greatly enough.

Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.