Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

Space can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered. When our race has reached its ultimate achievements, and the stars themselves are scattered no more widely than the seed of Adam, even then we shall still be like ants crawling on the face of the Earth. The ants have covered the world, but have they conquered it - for what do their countless colonies know of it, or of each other?

There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable globes like this on which we live and grow, this space we declare to be infinite, since neither reason, convenience, sense-perception nor nature assign to it a limit.

This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys.

In this infinite space is placed our universe (whether by chance, by necessity, or by providence I do not now consider).

The universe is a space bigger than all of us we are part of.

The universe is so amazing and so limitless, who wouldn't want to study the universe?

I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems, All all I see multiplied as high as I can cipher edge but the rim of the farther systems. Wider and wider they spread, expanding, always expanding, Outward and outward and forever outward.

Everything that occupies space has form. The formless can only be infinite.

Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.

Space doesn't just encompass the sublime and the ridiculous. It erases the line between.

By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence.

I'll never retire. The new millennium is the age of adventure as far as I am concerned. I'm going up a volcano and off into space.

Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat.

Our attainments [in space] are a major element in the competition between the Soviet system and our own . . . . in this sense, [they] are part of the battle along the fluid front of the cold war.

Our space programme has overcome many hurdles. At the same time it is one of the most cost effective programmes. This should make us proud.

I think that space flight is a condition of Nature that comes into effect when an intelligent species reaches the saturation point of its planetary habitat combined with a certain level of technological ability... I think it is a built-in gene-directed drive for the spreading of the species and its continuation.

As far as actually setting up colonies of people who would live their whole lives in space, I think we're a long ways from doing that yet, and I think we have many, many decades before we could be able to even consider something like that.

Ben Affleck (who plays A.J. Frost) and I got to actually go into the neutral buoyancy tank in actual $10 million spacesuits the astronauts wear in outer space, and that was pretty interesting

Maybe the purpose of the space program [NASA] is to prepare the world for Big Brother - the New World Order.

Every single astronaut who has come back from space comes back determined to do more to protect it.

Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our new frontier out there, and it's everybody's business to know about space.

Our future lies with today's kids and tomorrow's space exploration.

Anybody who grew up with the space program is a fan of science fiction.

A rocket is an experiment; a star is an observation.