Though the specific ideals of astronautics are new, the motives and impulses underlying them are old as the race — and in the ultimate analysis, they owe as much to emotion as to reason. Even if we could learn nothing in space that our instruments would not already tell us, we should go there just the same.


Lecture, St Martin's Technical School on Charing Cross Road, October 5, 1946

Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

Though the specific ideals of astronautics are new, the motives and impulses underlying them are old as the race — and in the ultimate analysis,...

Though the specific ideals of astronautics are new, the motives and impulses underlying them are old as the race — and in the ultimate analysis,...

Though the specific ideals of astronautics are new, the motives and impulses underlying them are old as the race — and in the ultimate analysis,...

Though the specific ideals of astronautics are new, the motives and impulses underlying them are old as the race — and in the ultimate analysis,...