Quote

Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference we should each be treated with appropriate respect.

Arthur C. Clarke

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Arthur C. Clarke
Age: 90 †
Born: 1917
Born: December 16
Died: 2008
Died: March 19
Engineer
Explorer
Film Writer
Inventor
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Scientist
Screenwriter
Writer
Minehead
Somerset
Arthur Charles Clarke
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke
Charles Willis
Arthur Clarke
Fundamentals
Makes
Diversity
Treated
Based
Difference
Silicon
Respect
Carbon
Appropriate
Differences
Fundamental
Whether

More quotes by Arthur C. Clarke

Image
I will not be afraid because I understand ... And understanding is happiness.
Arthur C. Clarke
Image
I believe any malevolent supercivilisation would have rapidly self-destructed as we may be in the process of doing ourselves. If we do have contact, physical contact with aliens, I think it will be benign.
Arthur C. Clarke
Image
When the Sun shrinks to a dull red dwarf, it will not be dying. It will just be starting to live and everything that has gone before will merely be a prelude to its real history.
Arthur C. Clarke
Image
A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide.
Arthur C. Clarke
Image
At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.
Arthur C. Clarke
Image
Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral.
Arthur C. Clarke
Image
The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation.
Arthur C. Clarke
Image
Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological
Arthur C. Clarke
Image
Perhaps no other year before or since 1984 has been awaited with such eager anticipation.
Arthur C. Clarke
Image
The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.
Arthur C. Clarke
Image
Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God.
Arthur C. Clarke
Image
If the house is to be demolished tomorrow anyhow, people seem to feel, we may as well burn the furniture today. None of our problems are insoluble... But it seems clear that to prevail we humans will have to act with a smartness and selflessness that has so far eluded us during our long and tangled history.
Arthur C. Clarke
Image
The only real problem in life is what to do next.
Arthur C. Clarke
Image
If man survives for as long as the least successful of the dinosaurs-those creatures whom we often deride as nature's failures-then we may be certain of this: for all but a vanishingly brief instant near the dawn of history, the word 'ship' will mean- 'spaceship.'
Arthur C. Clarke
Image
When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation.
Arthur C. Clarke
Image
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
Arthur C. Clarke
Image
The exploration of the planets is now closer to us in time than the exploration of Africa by Stanley and Livingstone.
Arthur C. Clarke
Image
There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.
Arthur C. Clarke
Image
You don't believe in organized religion, yet a major theme in so many of your works seems to be a quest for God.
Arthur C. Clarke
Image
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.
Arthur C. Clarke