Arthur C. Clarke Quotes - Page 7

Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains; they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented.

Good morning, Dr. Chandra. This is Hal. I am ready for my first lesson.

Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral.

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.

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

If I didn't exist, I would have invented myself.

In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space.

Even by the twenty-second century, no way had yet been discovered of keeping elderly and conservative scientists from occupying crucial administrative positions. Indeed, it was doubted if the problem ever would be solved.

You don't believe in organized religion, yet a major theme in so many of your works seems to be a quest for God.

If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.

The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.

Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children.

When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Training was one thing, reality another.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

I don't think there is such a thing as as a real prophet. You can never predict the future. We know why now, of course; chaos theory, which I got very interested in, shows you can never predict the future.

The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation.

Can the synthesis of man and machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded?

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.

One theory which can no longer be taken very seriously is that UFOs are interstellar spaceships.

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.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.