3 Arthur C. Clarke Quotes on Progress

Arthur C. Clarke quotes on progress

43. Clarke's Second Law: The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

58. In my time I've been very fortunate to see many of my dreams come true! Growing up in the 1920s and 1930s, I never expected to see so much happen in the span of a few decades. We 'space cadets' of the British Interplanetary Society spent all our spare time discussing space travel - but we didn't imagine that it lay in our own near future: I still can't quite believe that we've just marked the 50th anniversary of the Space Age! We've accomplished a great deal in that time, but the 'Golden Age of Space' is only just beginning. Over the next 50 years, thousands of people will travel to Earth orbit - and then, to the Moon and beyond. Space travel - and space tourism - will one day become almost as commonplace as flying to exotic destinations on our own planet.

73. Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.