| Quote | Author |
| 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 |
| It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. | Arthur C. Clarke |
| It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God-but to create him. | Arthur C. Clarke |
| Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. | 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 |
| There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a
vacuum. | Arthur C. Clarke |
| Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. | Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of the Future", 1962 |
| The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond
them into the impossible. | Arthur C. Clarke, Technology and the Future |