Sir Arthur Clarke quotes

“Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.”

— Sir Arthur Clarke

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

— Sir Arthur Clarke

“The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labor.”

— Sir Arthur Clarke

“The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.”

— Sir Arthur Clarke

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

— Sir Arthur Clarke

“I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books.”

— Sir Arthur Clarke

“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.”

— Sir Arthur Clarke