Quotes from Arthur C. Clarke

Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God.

Religion is a byproduct of fear.

The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths.

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

Any path to knowledge is a path to God-or Reality, whichever word one prefers to use

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

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.

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.

Science is the only religion of mankind.

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.

Anything that is theoretically possible will be achieved in practice, no matter what the technical difficulties are, if it is desired greatly enough.

At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.

Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.

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

In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up.

Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.

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

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.""Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped towards new ends.

..the happy hum of humanity.

Oh God, there were so many stars you could have used. What was the need to give these people to the fire, that the symbol of their passing might shine above Bethlehem?

And so Discovery drove on toward Saturn, as often as not pulsating with the cool music of the harpsichord, the frozen thoughts of a brain that had been dust for twice a hundred years.

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

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