Famous Quotes by Arthur C. Clarke

Below are famous quotes by Arthur C. Clarke - English physicist & science fiction author (1917 - ).

As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.

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

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God--but to create him.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God-but to create him.

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

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor - but they have few followers now.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

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