"There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism,...
..the happy hum of humanity.
More Arthur C. Clarke quotes
"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 bee...
"Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.
"How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean.
"The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible
"Sometimes, during the lonely hours on the control deck, Bowman would listen to this radiation. He would turn up the gain until the room filled with a ...
"Oh God, there were so many stars you could have used. What was the need to give these people to the fire, that the symbol of their passing might shine...
"(...)Through the ship's telescopes, he had watched the death of the solar system. With his own eyes, he had seen the volcanoes of Mars erupt for the f...
"Slowly, Jimmy held up his outstretched hands. Men had been arguing for two hundred years about this gesture; would every creature, everywhere in the u...
"There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped towar...
"In this universe the night was falling; the shadows were lengthening towards an east that would not know another dawn. But elsewhere the stars were st...
"Bowman was aware of some changes in his behavior patterns; it would have been absurd to expect anything else in the circumstances. He could no longer ...
"Imagine that every man’s mind is an island, surrounded by ocean. Each seems isolated, yet in reality all are linked by the bedrock from which they spr...
"Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of...
"Even more alarming were persistent rumors that someone had smuggled an Emotion Amplifier on board 'Mentor'. The so-called joy machines were banned on ...