Arthur C. Clarke Mind Quotations

Only feeble minds are paralyzed by facts.

In all the universe there is nothing more precious than mind.

Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.

And because, in all the Galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers in the fields of stars; they sowed, and sometimes they reaped. And sometimes, dispassionately, they had to weed.

Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses.

The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.

One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

They will have time enough, in those endless aeons, to attempt all things, and to gather all knowledge no Gods imagined by our minds have ever possessed the powers they will command But for all that, they may envy us, basking in the bright afterglow of Creation; for we knew the Universe when it was young.

Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?

Those meaningless and unanswerable questions the minds keep returning to, like a tongue exploring a broken tooth.