Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

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• Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Science, Technology, Possible And Impossible

  Letter to the editor, Science, 19 Jan. 1968.

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

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Life, Lonely, Loneliness

  "Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the Twenty-First Century". Book by Michio Kaku, 1997.

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

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Motivational, Moving On, Success

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• In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Loving Life, Two, Achievement

  Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry Lee (2012). “Rama II”, p.345, RosettaBooks

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• The future is not to be forecast, but created.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Forecasts

  Arthur Charles Clarke, Ervin Laszlo (2011). “Macroshift: Navigating the Transformation to a Sustainable World (Large Print 16pt)”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Atheist, Religion, Tragedy

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

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Science, Intelligent, Space

  IRC discussion with Gentry Lee at Sci Fi Channel, November 1, 1996.

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• Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Learning, Technology, Perception

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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!

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Dangerous Ideas, Three, Done

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• The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Technology, Differences, Machines

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

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Character, Maturity, Civilization

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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?

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Inspirational, Educational, Men

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

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Inspirational, Funny, Believe

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• Religion is a by-product of fear. For much of human history it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn’t killing people in the name of god a pretty good definition of insanity?

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Atheist, Names, People

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• The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for their future, not our past.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

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• When you finally understand the universe, it will not only be stranger than you imagine, it will be stranger than you can imagine.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Stranger, Imagine, Universe

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• It is vital to remember that information - in the sense of raw data - is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Knowledge, Data, Essentials

  "Humanity will survive information deluge - Sir Arthur C Clarke" by Nalaka Gunawardene, OneWorld South Asia, December 5, 2003.

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• The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Play, Goal, Unemployment

  "Los Angeles Free Press" Interview, (pp. p. 42-43, 47), April 25, 1969.

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

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Ocean, Interesting, Nautical

  "Blue Carbon: The Role of Healthy Oceans in Binding Carbon : a Rapid Response Assessment" by Christian Nellemann, Emily Corcoran, UNEP/Earthprint, (p. 23), 2009.

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• The universe must be full of voices, calling from star to star in a myriad tongues. One day we shall join that cosmic conversation.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Stars, Voice, One Day

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

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Life, Real, Next

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

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Intellectual, Definitions, My Favorite

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

  Arthur C. Clarke

  God, Atheist, Fear

  "Sir Arthur’s Quotations", www.clarkefoundation.org.

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

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Able

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• You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Way, Free Will, Protect You

  Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry Lee (2012). “Rama Revealed”, p.529, RosettaBooks

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