Quotes from Arthur C. Clarke

If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods.

Can the synthesis of man and machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded?

A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide.

Science demands patience.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.

God said, 'Cancel Program GENESIS.' The universe ceased to exist.

Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.

I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.

Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains; they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented.

You don't believe in organized religion, yet a major theme in so many of your works seems to be a quest for God.

Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive.

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

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

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!

I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.

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

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

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

When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.

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

My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.

The phenomenon of UFO doesn't say anything about the presence of intelligence in space. It just shows how rare it is here on the earth.

No one of intelligence resents the inevitable.