(30 quotes found)
“Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.”
Arthur C. Clarke
“It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.”
“There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.”
“Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.”
“I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.”
“New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!”
“I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.”
“We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 -- and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?”
“It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.”
“Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor - but they have few followers now.”
