Arthur C. Clarke Quotes About Moon

Quotes about: Moon

• The moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Stars, Moon, Space

• I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Book, Reading, Writing

• The piece of equipment I'm most found off is my telescope. The other night I had a superb view of the moon.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Moon, Night, Views

• The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Moon, Space Flight, Aviation

• Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost certain that the stars will come to us. Isolationism is neither a practical policy on the national or cosmic scale. And when the first contact with the outer universe is made, one would like to think that Mankind played an active and not merely a passive role-that we were the discoverers, not the discovered.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Stars, Lying, Thinking

• 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

  Mean, Successful, Men

• . . . Moon-Watcher felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense of envy--of dissatisfaction with his life. He had no idea of its cause, still less of its cure; but discontent had come into his soul, and he had taken one small step toward humanity.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Taken, Moon, Ideas

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2001: A Space Odyssey”, p.34, RosettaBooks

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