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Arthur C. ClarkeYou don't believe in organized religion, yet a major theme in so many of your works seems to be a quest for God.
Arthur C. ClarkeIt 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.
Arthur C. ClarkePerhaps no other year before or since 1984 has been awaited with such eager anticipation.
Arthur C. ClarkeI suspect that religion is a necessary evil in the childhood of our particular species. And that's one of the interesting things about contact with other intelligences: we could see what role, if any, religion plays in their development. I think that religion may be some random by-product of mammalian reproduction. If that's true, would non-mammalian aliens have a religion?
Arthur C. Clarke