Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

Arthur C. Clarke (32)

Birth:	16th December, 1917
Death:	19th March, 2008
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Essayist, Inventor, Scientist, Writer

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

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• I’m sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It’s just been too intelligent to come here.

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• I’m sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It’s just been too intelligent to come here.

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• Humor was the enemy of desire

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• The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

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• The First Clarke Law states, “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.”

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• Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software.

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• 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.

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• 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?

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

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• The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

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

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• The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.

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• The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

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• Sometimes I think we’re alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we’re not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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!

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• It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.

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