It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference. Occasionally, of course, an observation can shatter the frame and force the construction of a new one, but that is extremely rare. Galileo's and Einsteins seldom appear more than once per century, which is just as well for the equanimity of mankind.

— Arthur C. Clarke

It is hard to draw any line between compassion and love.

— Arthur C. Clarke

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

— Arthur C. Clarke

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.

— Arthur C. Clarke

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

— Arthur C. Clarke

Jan had always been a good pianist, and now he was the finest in the world.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Just like the cosmonauts and their pee plants, all we have is each other.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Let us say that you might have become a telepathic cancer, a malignant mentality which in its inevitable dissolution would have poisoned other and greater minds.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Long ago the signalling had become no more than a meaningless ritual, now maintained by an animal which had forgotten to learn and a robot which had never known to forget.

— Arthur C. Clarke

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

— Arthur C. Clarke