It is not my duty as an historian to predict the future, only to observe and interpret the past. But its lesson is clear enough; we have lived too long out of contact with reality, and now the time has come to rebuild our lives.


Chapter 24 (p. 183) - The City and the Stars (1956)

Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

It is not my duty as an historian to predict the future, only to observe and interpret the past. But its lesson is clear enough; we have lived too...

It is not my duty as an historian to predict the future, only to observe and interpret the past. But its lesson is clear enough; we have lived too...

It is not my duty as an historian to predict the future, only to observe and interpret the past. But its lesson is clear enough; we have lived too...

It is not my duty as an historian to predict the future, only to observe and interpret the past. But its lesson is clear enough; we have lived too...