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. Arthur C. Clarke Read 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 Read Quote
The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium. Arthur C. Clarke Read Quote
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society. Arthur C. Clarke Read 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 Read Quote
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It’s completely impossible. 2- It’s possible, but it’s not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along. Arthur C. Clarke Read Quote
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. Arthur C. Clarke Read Quote
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him. Arthur C. Clarke Read 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 Read Quote
