Arthur C. Clarke Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets. The Exploration of Space

2. 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. 2010: Odyssey Two

3. 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.

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

5. Humor was the enemy of desire. 2010: Odyssey Two

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

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

8. 1. 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.2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

9. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry Into the Limits of the Possible

10. He did not know that the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as he looked at the emaciated body he felt a dim disquiet that was the ancestor of sadness. 2001: A Space Odyssey

11. He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world. 2061: Odyssey Three

12. How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean.

13. 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. Childhood's End

14. It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference. Occasionally, of course, an observation can shatter the frame and force the construction of a new one, but that is extremely rare. Galileos and Einsteins seldom appear more than once per century, which is just as well for the equanimity of mankind. 2061: Odyssey Three

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

16. Meteorites don’t fall on the Earth. They fall on the Sun and the Earth gets in the way. - John W. Campbell The Hammer of God

17. Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything. 2001: A Space Odyssey

18. 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. Childhood's End

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

20. There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence—or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of its operations like the beautiful patterns on a butterfly's wings. The insect would fly just as well without them.

21. 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.