Arthur C. Clarke quotes and sayings

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Arthur C. Clarke quotes
- Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
- Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
- This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
- I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
- I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.
- There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
- 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.
- Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.
- If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
- Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.