Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

English - Writer | December 16, 1917 - March 19, 2008

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

Arthur C. Clarke

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

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The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

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The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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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.

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Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.

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I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

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

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

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

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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.

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