“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” — Arthur C. Clarke Quote

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

“Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.”

“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”

“Humor was the enemy of desire.”

“After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.”

“Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.”

“Forests capture the most carbon dioxide on land, and existing mature, primary forests are responsible for the great majority...Protecting existing forests would have far more impact between now and 2100 than newly planted forests.”

“Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.”

“Moments from their life together flickered: their first time making love. Eating pizza on the floor of their city apartment. The way he gently laid his thumb to still her wildly twitching eye. Who was he now? Who was she? What was happening? … Yes, my partner is a thief. A thief in the night.”

“I remember in 1967, when there was that terrible fire on NASA's Apollo 1 rocket that killed three astronauts, my father made pure oxygen and we lit this tiny cup and burned it. Suddenly, we had an unbelievable jet and a fire. You just could see exactly what had happened.”

“After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.”