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27 quotes by Arthur C. Clarke

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS (Sri Lankabhimanya Arthur Charles Clarke) (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host. He is perhaps most famous for being co-writer of the screenplay for the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, widely considered to be one of the most influential films of all time. His other science fiction writings...
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The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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

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Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

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The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

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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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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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

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Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2-... →

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There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

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