Quotes by : Arthur C. Clarke

As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful.....

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

Please leave me alone let me go on to the stars.

Anything that had happened once on Earth should be expected millions of times elsewhere in the Universe....

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

Men knew better than they realized, when they placed the abode of the gods beyond the reach of gravity.....

This had not endeared him to exobiologists such as Dr Perera, who took exactly the opposite view. To....

...a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.....

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.....