Sunstorm Quotes

“Just like the cosmonauts and their pee plants, all we have is each other.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Sunstorm

“If humans could not be rid of religion, it was argued, then let them at least not be harmed by it.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Sunstorm

“The newborn Athena, suddenly knowing far more about the future than the humans who had created her, had immediately been faced with a dilemma.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Sunstorm

“Oh, can it,” she said irritably. “I’ve heard it all before. A Tower of Babel in space, eh? And you’re the one to bring it down. How disappointing, how banal!” “Miriam, your mockery can’t hurt me anymore. I have found faith,” he said. And there was the real problem, she realized.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Sunstorm

“And just as Columbus’s discoveries fixed the geography of Earth forever in human minds, so we learned the geography of the universe”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Sunstorm

“Good morning, Colonel Tooke. This is Athena. I am ready for my first lesson.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Sunstorm

“magnetic disturbances can stimulate religious impulses in human brains: there was a plague of prophets and doomsayers, miracles and visions.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Sunstorm

“The date stamp, she noted, showed 4 B.C.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Sunstorm

“They want the shield, but they don’t like having to pay for it—”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Sunstorm

“The worst thing is, they get bored. The disadvantage of overeducation”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Sunstorm

“I have always had the greatest enthusiasm for the mission.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Sunstorm

“increased solar activity was correlated with religious impulses in humans.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Sunstorm

“Just remember, the mass of the people in China have little or no idea what their leaders are up to, and even less control.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Sunstorm

“windows of nonsurvivability”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Sunstorm

“British Interplanetary Society.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Sunstorm

“was an environment designed to reassure nutcases, she thought wryly.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Sunstorm

“magnetostriction,”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Sunstorm

“But to me, MAP was a robot Columbus.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Sunstorm