Arthur C. Clarke

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

—Arthur C. Clarke

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

—Arthur C. Clarke

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

—Arthur C. Clarke

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

—Arthur C. Clarke

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

—Arthur C. Clarke

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

—Arthur C. Clarke

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

—Arthur C. Clarke

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.

—Arthur C. Clarke

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

—Arthur C. Clarke

At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved—if it can be achieved at all—within the next few hundred years.

—Arthur C. Clarke

CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

—Arthur C. Clarke

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

—Arthur C. Clarke

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run—and often in the short one—the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.

—Arthur C. Clarke

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

—Arthur C. Clarke