1. 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.2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

— Arthur C. Clarke

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

— Arthur C. Clarke

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

— Arthur C. Clarke

After the struggle for sheer existence, they had no energy left for a civilization.

— Arthur C. Clarke

And so Discovery drove on toward Saturn, as often as not pulsating with the cool music of the harpsichord, the frozen thoughts of a brain that had been dust for twice a hundred years.

— Arthur C. Clarke

And yet, even while they baffled him, they aroused within his heart a feeling he had never known before. When-which was not often, but sometimes happened-they burst into tears of utter frustration or despair, their tiny disappointments seemed to him more tragic than Man’s long retreat after the loss of his Galactic Empire. That was something too huge and remote for comprehension, but the weeping of a child could pierce one to the heart. Alvin had met love in Dias par, but now he was learning something equally precious, and without which love itself could never reach its highest fulfillment but must remain forever incomplete. He was learning tenderness.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."" Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

— Arthur C. Clarke

As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful.

— Arthur C. Clarke

...a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.

— Arthur C. Clarke