Arthur C. Clarke

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.

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

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.[Sources and Acknowledgements: Chapter 19]

Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.

After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.