Arthur C. Clarke Short Quotes

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Only little minds are impressed by size and number.

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I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.

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Any teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be!

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Astronomy, as nothing else can do, teaches men humility.

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Sorry to interrupt the festivities, but we have a problem.

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Like Great Britain, the Moon has no climate - only weather.

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The thing's hollow—it goes on forever—and—oh my God!—

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It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.

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It is later than you think. May it not be true for this Sundial.

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

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Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence

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Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological

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No dead weight shall be carried for a moment longer than necessary.

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He had discharged his destiny; now, perhaps, he could begin to live.

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I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're sceptical.

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All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landings there.

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

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When one has to ask, "Am I really in love?" the answer is always "No".

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There was no substitute for reality; one should be aware of imitations.

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Good morning, Dr. Chandra. This is Hal. I am ready for my first lesson.

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The universes... drift like bubbles in the foam upon the River of Time.

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

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The newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.

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Even though you were once a goddess, Kalidasa's heaven was only an illusion.

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I will not be afraid because I understand... And understanding is happiness.

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Perhaps our role on this planet is not to worship God — but to create Him.

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Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.

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

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It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.

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Clarke's Fourth Law:
For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.

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