Quotes by : Arthur C. Clarke

There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained....

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth....

There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But....

There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence—or even in....

In this universe the night was falling; the shadows were lengthening towards an east that would not know....

Once, I believed that space couldhave no power over faith, just as I believed the heavens declared the....

After the struggle for sheer existence, they had no energy left for a civilization.

Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.

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

Three million years! The infinitely crowded panorama of written history, with its empires and its kings,....