Arthur C Clarke quotes

" The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. " # Possibilities

" The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. " # Past # Impossibility # Possibilities

" It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. " # Intelligence and Intellectuals

" Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. " # Death and Dying

" There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. " # Hope # Revolutions and Revolutionaries # Books - Reading

" The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. " # Taxes and Taxation # Honesty # Life and Living

" Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. " # Vision

" Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. " # Technology

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

" Clarke's Third Law doesn't work in reverse. Given that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic," it does not follow that "any magical claim that anybody may make at any time is indistinguishable from a technological advance that well come some time in the future." ... There have admittedly been occasions when authoritative, pontificating skeptics have come away with egg on their faces, even within their own lifetimes. But there have been a far greater number of occasions when magical claims have never been vindicated. An apparent magical claim might eventually turn out to be true. In any age there are so many magical claims that are, or could be, made. They can't all be true; many are mutually contradictory; and we have no reason to suppose that, simply by the act of sitting down and dreaming up a magical claim, we shall make it come true in some future technology. Some things that would surprise us today will come true in the future. But lots and lots of things that would surprise us today will not come true ever. " # Acting and Actors # Skepticism # Love