Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured.

I'm sometimes asked how I would like to be remembered. I've had a diverse career as a writer, underwater explorer, space promoter and science populariser. Of all these, I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.

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

Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity.

We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return... The coming of the rocket brought to an end a million years of isolation... the childhood of our race was over and history as we know it began.

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

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.