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I've been saying for a long time that I'm hoping to find intelligent life in Washington.

I've been saying for a long time that I'm hoping to find intelligent life in Washington.

Arthur C. Clarke

Intelligent, Long, Long Time

"Meeting of the Minds: Buzz Aldrin Visits Arthur C. Clarke". Andrew Chaikin, Space Illustrated Magazine, February 27, 2001.

One can imagine a time when men who still inhabit organic bodies are regarded with pity by those who have passed on to an infinitely richer mode of existence, capable of throwing their consciousness or sphere of attention instantaneously to any point on land, sea, or sky where there is a suitable sensing organ. In adolescence we leave childhood behind; one day there may be a second and more portentous adolescence, when we bid farewell to the flesh.

Arthur C. Clarke

Farewell, Men, Sky

Arthur C. Clarke (2013). “Profiles Of The Future”, p.111, Hachette UK

Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.

Arthur C. Clarke

Magic

The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

Arthur C. Clarke

Stranger

Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2001: A Space Odyssey”, p.19, RosettaBooks

It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.

Arthur C. Clarke

Thought Provoking, Youth, Wonderful

Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2010: Odyssey Two”, p.181, RosettaBooks

Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?

Arthur C. Clarke

Mind, Matter, Should

Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “The Songs of Distant Earth”, p.89, RosettaBooks

Any path to knowledge is a path to God-or Reality, whichever word one prefers to use

Arthur C. Clarke

Reality, Use, Path

Arthur C. Clarke (2011). “By Space Possessed”, p.117, Hachette UK

Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.

Arthur C. Clarke

Stars, Going Out, Overhead

1958 'The Nine Billion Names of God'.

Across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of Homer is turned upon our age. Along the echoing corridors of time, the roar of the rockets merges now with the creak of the wind-taut rigging. For somewhere in the world today, still unconscious of his destiny, walks the boy who will be the first Odysseus of the Age of Space.

Arthur C. Clarke

Future, Destiny, Boys

Arthur C. Clarke (2011). “By Space Possessed”, p.4, Hachette UK

What is becoming more interesting than the myths themselves has been the study of how the myths were constructed from sparse or unpromising facts indeed, sometimes from no facts in a kind of mute conspiracy of longing, very rarely under anybody's conscious control.

Arthur C. Clarke

Interesting, Facts, Becoming

Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter (2010). “The Light of Other Days”, p.206, Macmillan