All Arthur C. Clarke Quotes
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
46% of people like this quote
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 in
Patriotism
45% of people like this quote
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
45% of people like this quote
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
Arthur C. Clarke in
Politics
44% of people like this quote
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
43% of people like this quote
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
Arthur C. Clarke
43% of people like this quote
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
43% of people like this quote
CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
Arthur C. Clarke
43% of people like this quote
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software.
Arthur C. Clarke
41% of people like this quote
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 in
Science
41% of people like this quote
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
38% of people like this quote
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
Arthur C. Clarke
33% of people like this quote
I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.
Arthur C. Clarke in
Religion
10% of people like this quote
Related authors