Thursday 20 March 2008

Arthur C Clarke Quotes.......

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Arthur C. Clarke

“Life is just one big banana. Science fiction allows us all to peel open the reality and discover the yellow truth inside.”
Clarke’s three laws:
“When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.”
“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

“The truth, as always, will be far stranger.”

“Sometimes I think we’re alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we’re not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.”

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

Of UFOs: “They tell us absolutely nothing about intelligence elsewhere in the universe, but they do prove how rare it is on Earth.”

“Somewhere in me is a curiosity sensor. I want to know what’s over the next hill. You know, people can live longer without food than without information. Without information, you’d go crazy.”

“The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.”

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