The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke

by Arthur C. Clarke

The mental evolution of any race is conditioned, even dominated, by physical factors which that race almost invariably takes for granted as part of the natural order of things.

‘Certainly nothing we can learn from Nature will ever be as great a threat as the peril we have encountered in our own minds.’

We’re here because we couldn’t be anywhere else.

Fanaticism of any kind casts a gloom over the most festive assembly,

But at my back I always hear Time’s winged chariot hurrying near…

EARTH IS THE CRADLE OF THE MIND—BUT YOU CANNOT LIVE IN THE CRADLE FOREVER