Sir Arthur Charles Clarke CBE FRAS was an English science-fiction writer, science writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host. He co-wrote the screenplay for the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, one of the most influential films of all time. Profoundly inspirational Arthur C Clarke quotes will challenge the way you think, and make your life worth living.

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Famous Arthur C Clarke Quotes

Only feeble minds are paralyzed by facts. Arthur C. Clarke

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. Arthur C. Clarke

I’ve been saying for a long time that I’m hoping to find intelligent life in Washington. Arthur C. Clarke

I’m sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It’s just been too intelligent to come here. Arthur C. Clarke

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke

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

In my life, I have found two things of priceless worth learning and loving. Nothing else not fame, not power, not an 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

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth, when it is clearly Ocean. Arthur C. Clarke

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

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn’t require religion at all. Arthur C. Clarke

The future is not to be forecast, but created. Arthur C. Clarke

Magic’s just science that we don’t understand yet. Arthur C. Clarke

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

I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical. Arthur C. Clarke

Guns are the crutches of the impotent. Arthur C. Clarke

One of the greatest tragedies in mankind’s entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion. Arthur C. Clarke

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

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

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

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities. Arthur C. Clarke

I’m sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It’s just been too intelligent to come here. Arthur C. Clarke

It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand. Arthur C. Clarke

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

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

A well stocked mind is safe from boredom. Arthur C. Clarke

No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time. As their material conditions improve, men raise their sights and become discontented with power and possessions that once would have seemed beyond their wildest dreams. And even when the external world has granted all it can, there still remain the searchings of the mind and the longings of the heart. Arthur C. Clarke

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

I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself. Arthur C. Clarke

My favorite definition of an intellectual Someone who has been educated beyond his her intelligence. Arthur C. Clarke

The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be. Arthur C. Clarke

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

Science is the only religion of mankind. Arthur C. Clarke

Until we get rid of religion, we won’t be able to conduct the search for God. Arthur C. Clarke

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

I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical. Arthur C. Clarke

Now I’m a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything. Arthur C. Clarke

Isn’t killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity? Arthur C. Clarke

It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything. Arthur C. Clarke

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

After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring. Arthur C. Clarke

Religion is a byproduct of fear. Arthur C. Clarke

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

What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy’s point of view. Arthur C. Clarke

The thing’s hollow it goes on forever and oh my God! it’s full of stars! Arthur C. Clarke

The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be. Arthur C. Clarke

I will not be afraid because I understand. And understanding is happiness. Arthur C. Clarke

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

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. Arthur C. Clarke

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn’t require religion at all. Arthur C. Clarke

There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded. Arthur C. Clarke

Only small minds are impressed by large numbers. Arthur C. Clarke

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

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

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

If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns. Arthur C. Clarke

All human plans are subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe. Arthur C. Clarke

Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses. Arthur C. Clarke

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now. Arthur C. Clarke

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

Moon Watcher felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense of envy of dissatisfaction with his life. He had no idea of its cause, still less of its cure; but discontent had come into his soul, and he had taken one small step toward humanity. Arthur C. Clarke

As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self destroying. Arthur C. Clarke

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

There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded. Arthur C. Clarke

Sometimes when I’m in a bookstore or library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am seized by a powerful desire to read all the books, one by one. Arthur C Clarke

I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her. Arthur C. Clarke

I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent. Arthur C. Clarke

Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference we should each be treated with appropriate respect. Arthur C. Clarke

Now I understand, said the last man. Arthur C. Clarke

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

Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference; we should each be treated with appropriate respect. Arthur C. Clarke

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

Utopia was here at last its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias boredom. Arthur C. Clarke

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

In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty seven thousand million suns. In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting to label and classify all the grains of sand in all the deserts of the world. It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man. Arthur C. Clarke

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

The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children. Arthur C. Clarke

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

If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns. Arthur C. Clarke

I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about. Arthur C. Clarke

I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her. Arthur C. Clarke

One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. Arthur C. Clarke

The creation of wealth is certainly not to be despised, but in the long run the only human activities really worthwhile are the search for knowledge, and the creation of beauty. This is beyond argument, the only point of debate is which comes first. Arthur C. Clarke

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

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

I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent. Arthur C. Clarke

Now I can rejoice that I knew you, rather than mourn because I lost you. Arthur C. Clarke

The moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars. Arthur C. Clarke

If he was indeed mad, his delusions were beautifully organized. Arthur C. Clarke

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

In this universe the night was falling; the shadows were lengthening towards an east that would not know another dawn. But elsewhere the stars were still young and the light of morning lingered; and along the path he once had followed, Man would one day go again. Arthur C. Clarke

The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion. Arthur C. Clarke

Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological. Arthur C. Clarke

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

And because, in all the Galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers in the fields of stars; they sowed, and sometimes they reaped. And sometimes, dispassionately, they had to weed. Arthur C. Clarke

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

They would never know how lucky they had been. For a lifetime, mankind had achieved as much happiness as any race can ever know. It had been the Golden Age. But gold was also the color of sunset, of autumn and only Karellen’s ears could catch the first wailings of the winter storms. Arthur C. Clarke

I have encountered a few creationists and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide whether they were really mad or only pretending to be mad. If I was a religious person, I would consider creationism nothing less than blasphemy. Do its adherents imagine that God is a cosmic hoaxer who has created the whole vast fossil record for the sole purpose of misleading humankind? Arthur C. Clarke

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

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

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