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“Now I understand,” said the last man.”

Arthur C. Clarke book Childhood's End

Source: Childhood's End

“I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.”

Arthur C. Clarke

As quoted in Multiple Intelligences in Practice : Enhancing Self-esteem and Learning in the Classroom (2006) by Mike Fleetham, Section 2 : Using MI
2000s and attributed from posthumous publications

“Then he [The Star Child] waited, marshaling his thoughts and brooding over his still untested powers. For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something.”

Arthur C. Clarke book 2001: A Space Odyssey

Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey

“Open the pod bay doors, Hal.”

Arthur C. Clarke book 2001: A Space Odyssey

Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey

“Humor was the enemy of desire.”

Arthur C. Clarke book 2010: Odyssey Two

Source: 2010: Odyssey Two

“… the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.”

Arthur C. Clarke book 2001: A Space Odyssey

Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey

“The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.”

Arthur C. Clarke

As quoted in The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners (2004) by Geoff Tibballs, p. 264
2000s and attributed from posthumous publications

“Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom.”

Arthur C. Clarke book Childhood's End

Source: Childhood's End

“The creation of wealth is certainly not to be despised, but in the long run the only human activities really worthwhile are the search for knowledge, and the creation of beauty. This is beyond argument, the only point of debate is which comes first.”

Arthur C. Clarke

Source: Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible

“If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.”

Arthur C. Clarke book Rendezvous with Rama

Source: Rendezvous with Rama

“Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.”

Arthur C. Clarke book The Nine Billion Names of God

1950s
Source: "The Nine Billion Names of God", 1953

“But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.”

Arthur C. Clarke book 2001: A Space Odyssey

Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey

“["The Devil in the Dark"] impressed me because it presented the idea, unusual in science fiction thennow, that something weird, and even dangerous, need not be malevolent. That is a lesson that many of today's politicians have yet to learn.”

Arthur C. Clarke

“The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.”

Arthur C. Clarke book 2001: A Space Odyssey

Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey

“When in doubt, say nothing and move on.”

Arthur C. Clarke book Rendezvous with Rama

Source: Rendezvous with Rama

“Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological”

Arthur C. Clarke book 3001: The Final Odyssey

Source: 3001: The Final Odyssey

“Now I can rejoice that I knew you, rather than mourn because I lost you.”

Arthur C. Clarke

Source: The Songs Of Distant Earth

“When you are next out of doors on a summer night, turn your head towards the zenith. Almost vertically above you will be shining the brightest star of the northern skies — Vega of the Lyre, twenty-six years away at the speed of light, near enough to the point of no return for us short-lived creatures. Past this blue-white beacon, fifty times as brilliant as our sun, we may send our minds and bodies, but never our hearts.
For no man will ever turn homewards beyond Vega, to greet again those he knew and loved on Earth.”

Arthur C. Clarke

We'll Never Conquer Space (1960)