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Quotes from We'll Never Conquer Space — Arthur C. Clarke

1917–2008 England

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Space can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered.

We'll Never Conquer Space (1960)

We have abolished space here on the little Earth; we can never abolish the space that yawns between the stars.

We'll Never Conquer Space (1960)

Our age is in many ways unique, full of events and phenomena that never occurred before and can never happen again.

We'll Never Conquer Space (1960)

Only a lifetime ago, parents waved farewell to their emigrating children in the virtual certainty that they would never meet again.
And now, within one incredible generation, all this has changed.

We'll Never Conquer Space (1960)

To obtain a mental picture of the distance to the nearest star, compared to the nearest planet, you must imagine a world in which the closest object to you is only five feet away — and there is nothing else to see until you have travelled a thousand miles.

We'll Never Conquer Space (1960)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Arthur C. Clarke (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.