Prelude to Space Quotes

“The dream of the Lotus Eaters,” he said, “is a pleasant fantasy for the individual—but it would be death for the race.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Prelude to Space

“I have shaken the hands of the first man to orbit the earth, the first man to step out into space, and the first to walk upon the Moon. In the long perspectives of history, it will not matter that two of them were Russian and one was American. Arthur C. Clarke,
September 1975”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Prelude to Space

“I can claim a few successes as a minor prophet. I placed the first lunar impact in 1959, and Luna II hit the Mare Imbrium at 21:01 GMT on September 13, 1959. I was watching hopefully through my Questar telescope in Columbo as the Moon sank into the Indian Ocean, but saw nothing. Prelude to Space was written just two years after my 1945 paper on synchronous communications satellites and was, therefore, the first work of fiction in which the idea of “comsats” was advocated. I have reason to believe that it had some influence on the men who turned this dream into reality.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Prelude to Space

“Futilitarianism.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Prelude to Space

“And the meek shall inherit the Earth, eh?” said his companion, who seemed to have a very literary turn of mind.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Prelude to Space

“I have shaken the hands of the first man to orbit the earth, the first man to step out into space, and the first to walk upon the Moon. In the long perspectives of history, it will not matter that two of them were Russian and one was American. Arthur C. Clarke,”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Prelude to Space

“On July 20, 1969, all the countless science-fiction stories of the first landing on the Moon became frozen in time, like flies in amber.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Prelude to Space

“To my friends in the
British Interplanetary Society—
who, by sharing this dream, helped
to make it come true.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Prelude to Space