75 result(s) for Arthur C. Clarke Quotes.
"Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction: It's impossible. It's possible, but it's not worth doing. I said it was a good idea all along."
"The only thing we can be sure of is that we live in a universe that is ruled by chance and that this makes life interesting and exciting."
"The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play."
"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."
"The law of the jungle has been more or less tempered by civilization. We are the law of more or less."
"Any teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be."
"I'm rather an optimist; I wouldn't have written on the front page of the newspapers about nuclear peril or with the [coming] of the year 2000."
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"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."
"The purpose of argument should not be victory, but progress."
"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."
"The only thing we can be sure of is that we live in a universe that is ruled by chance."
"I'm an intolerant old grump who didn't like reading science fiction because it was so full of characters and dialogue."
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
"Most crises are best handled by doing nothing."
"As usual, the presence of another man had reduced the resident male to a highly competitive mood."
"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."
"Hundreds of moral questions have been raised by flying saucers."
"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion."
"I am pleased to have dots put in my file and write that there are great weaknesses to this story."
"The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard is ludicrous."
"Somerset Maugham has a point of view, and if he found Venus on a rock it would turn out to be just rising there shining."
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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."
"I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here."
"Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."
"The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale."
"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion."
"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering."
"It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural shifts."
"The only thing we can be sure of about the future is that it will be absolutely fantastic."
"I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical."
"The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible."
"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean."
"I'm often asked why I write science fiction instead of predicting the future. My answer is that, when I was a boy, I fell in love with science fiction. And I didn't stop."
"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?"
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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."
"I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about."
"Any teacher that can be replaced with a computer, deserves to be."
"Scale invariance may be a new motif in the songs of Earth."
"We have to get rid of those stilted plays, those creaking door plays. How about a play with a plot that unfolds moment by moment, as in life? That can only admit bizarre characters—delirious and desperate with moments of wild poetry."
"I don't believe in extraterrestrials; when it comes to new life forms, contact the FDA."
"The information patterns that make up our knowledge have been reshaped by the technologies we use to store, retrieve, and disseminate them."
"I would like to see anyone be able to achieve their dreams, and that's what this organization does."
"It's not easy to prove anything. It's easier to plausibly distruct bulletproof steel than it is to prove that someone satisfies a propably false concept like physicalistic terms."
"We have to resign ourselves to the fact that a significant fraction of mankind is just too stupid to learn."
"The general opinion is starting to make out that there are weapons of mass destruction in the Pacific Islands and our job now is to call for a ceasefire."
"It's one of the greatest challenges in our society to be able to imagine things better."
"We have to leave the planet as we found it, then we shall succeed."
"It may be that the old Teutonic sneer will prove to be the right one after all."
"If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family Anatidae on our hands."
"No, I'm not the programmer; the programs do that."
"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
"I don't pretend we know what we're doing. But we can do something, and we will do something."
"We stand on the brink of a new age, an age of extraterrestrial exploration and development."
"The future is not what it used to be."
"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him."
"Every achievement, large or small, begins in your mind."
"Mysterious beings are not needed to explain the universe, only the inventive imagination of our great thinkers."
"If an alien comes to Earth, it's not because they were looking for us. They'd come for the beauty of the planet."
"The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts."
"I have not the slightest doubt that this planet has been visited by extraterrestrial beings."
"There is no greater reason for hope than the heart of a true believer."
"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."
"Science is but the seed of discovery. Technology is the blossom of creation."
"Human beings are responsible for their own habits and practices in the chain of evolution."
"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit."
"It is only through the understanding of science that we can appreciate the role of the universe in our lives."
"The stars are our past, and the future will be theirs."
"In the long run, the best way to understand what lies beyond our world is to be in the world."
"With knowledge comes responsibility."
"The dark side of the moon is all that we still don’t know about ourselves."
"Life is not just about survival. It's about living in peace and harmony."
"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination."
"Evolve or perish is the timeless message of the universe."
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