The Sands of Mars Quotes

“Nothing is deader than yesterday’s science-fiction—and Verne belongs to the day before yesterday.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, The Sands of Mars

“Martin’s one of the nicest fellows you could meet, as long as you don’t do it too often.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, The Sands of Mars

“I said nothing about men adapting themselves to Mars. Have you ever considered the possibility of Mars meeting us half-way?”
― Arthur C. Clarke, The Sands of Mars

“It was the morning star of Mars, though for a moment he had forgotten that the brilliant point of light was his own world.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, The Sands of Mars

“But as those who knew the truth said nothing, and those who knew nothing said too much, when night came the city was in a state of extreme confusion.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, The Sands of Mars

“For it was their world, not Man’s. However he might shape it for his own purposes, it would be his duty always to safeguard the interests of its rightful owners. No one could tell what part they might have to play in the history of the universe. And when, as was one day inevitable, Man himself came to the notice of yet higher races, he might well be judged by his behaviour here on Mars.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, The Sands of Mars

“seem quaint and archaic.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, The Sands of Mars