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
Patriotism, Small, Survive, Extreme
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Politics, Give, Fantasy, Turner
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
Funny, Income, Scale, Adjust
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
Impossible, Doing, Idea, Stages
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
Future, May, Which, Much Attention
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Nature, How, Call, Inappropriate
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
Imagination, New, Through, New Ideas
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Nature, Against, Laws, Mercy
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Detective, Westerns, Read, Science Fiction
I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Believe, Astrology, Skeptical
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Inspirational, Only, Going, Defined
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
Beginning, Will, Millennium, January
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
Been, Discovered, Half, Schooling
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Tragedy, Mankind, May, Hijacking
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.
- Arthur C. Clarke
God, Role, May, Worship
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
Very, Certainly, Almost, Distinguished
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
Science, Very, Certainly, Distinguished
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Inspirational, Discover, Go, Limits
Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Alone, Space, Think, Staggering
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Technology, Society, May, Technological
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Computers, Sex, Computer, Frustrating
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
Space, Here, Some, Proof
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Funny, Proven, Any, Survival
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Fact, Symbolism, Flags, Vacuum
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Technology, Magic, Advanced, Sufficiently
I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Knowledge, Certainly, Answers
I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Believe, Her, Very, Religion
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