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Best 47 Quotes by Arthur C. Clarke – Page 2 of 2

“Since women are better at producing babies, presumably Nature has given men some talent to compensate. But for the moment I can’t think of it.”

“The basis of morality is really very simple and doesn’t require religion at all. It’s this: “Don’t do unto anybody else what you wouldn’t like to be done to you.” It seems to me that that’s all there is to it.”

“The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.”

“The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labor.”

“The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers – and thermonuclear weapons.”

“The fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life – much less intelligence – beyond this Earth does not surprise or disappoint me in the least. Our technology must still be laughably primitive, we may be like jungle savages listening for the throbbing of tom-toms while the ether around them carries more words per second than they could utter in a lifetime.”

“The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play.”

“The intelligence of the planet is constant, and the population is growing.”

“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.”

“The statement that God created man in his own image is ticking like a time bomb in the foundations of Christianity.”

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

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

“We always thought the living earth was a thing of beauty. It isn’t. Life has had to learn to defend itself against the planet’s random geological savagery.”

“We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up new laboratories in space. They are as much beyond our vision today as fire or electricity would be beyond the imagination of a fish.”

“What an odd thing it is to see an entire species – billions of people – playing with, listening to meaningless tonal patterns, occupied and preoccupied for much of their time by what they call 'music'.”

“What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy’s point of view.”

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