Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

Most popular Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses. - Arthur C. Clarke quote.
Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses.
— Arthur C. Clarke The Onion

religion

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. - Arthur C. Clarke quote.
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
— Arthur C. Clarke

intelligence

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke quote.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
— Arthur C. Clarke Profiles of the Future

technology

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible. - Arthur C. Clarke quote.
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Many and strange are the universes that drift like bubbles in the foam of the river of time. - Arthur C. Clarke quote.
Many and strange are the universes that drift like bubbles in the foam of the river of time.
— Arthur C. Clarke The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke

universe

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. - Arthur C. Clarke quote.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
— Arthur C. Clarke

common sense

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about. - Arthur C. Clarke quote.
I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
— Arthur C. Clarke
The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labor. - Arthur C. Clarke quote.
The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labor.
— Arthur C. Clarke

technology

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. - Arthur C. Clarke 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

power television

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. - Arthur C. Clarke quote.
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
— Arthur C. Clarke

business

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. - Arthur C. Clarke quote.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
— Arthur C. Clarke Profiles of the Future

impossible

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 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.