He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world.
Arthur C. ClarkeReligion is a by-product of fear. For much of human history it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isnโt killing people in the name of god a pretty good definition of insanity?
Arthur C. ClarkeTrying to predict the future is a discouraging and hazardous occupation. If by some miracle a prophet could describe the future exactly as it was going to take place, his predictions would sound so absurd that people everyone would laugh him to scorn. The only thing we can be sure of about the future is that it will be absolutely fantastic. So, if what I say now seems to you to be very reasonable, then I will have failed completely. Only if what I tell you appears absolutely unbelievable have we any chance of visualizing the future as it really will happen.
Arthur C. Clarke