Arthur C. Clarke Quotes, Thoughts and images

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.

The future is not to be forecast but created.

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.

The only real problem in life is what to do next.

Guns are the crutches of the impotent.

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

Civilization will reach maturity only when it learns to value diversity of character and ideas.

I have never grown up, but I will never stop growing.

Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses.

Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.

Getting information from the internet is like getting a glass of water from Niagara Falls.

I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're sceptical.

Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God.

Only feeble minds are paralyzed by facts.

Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return...

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

My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.

Only small minds are impressed by large numbers.

What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy's point of view.

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

Religion is a byproduct of fear.

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence

In all the universe there is nothing more precious than the mind.

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.