The Light of Other Days Quotes

“If the present is shitty and the future is worse, the past is all you've got”
― Arthur C. Clarke, The Light of Other Days

“Minkowski spacetime.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, The Light of Other Days: A Novel of the Transformation of Humanity

“The point, you see, is not the answers themselves, but the mental development we enjoy through striving for those answers.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, The Light of Other Days

“The end of the trial was a black hole, waiting to consume Bobby's future, as unavoidable and as unwelcome as death. So he did his best not to think about it.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, The Light of Other Days

“David began to track back in time. He had devised a way to make the viewpoint effectively fast-rewind into the past—in reality a succession of fresh wormholes was being established, back along the world-line of DNA molecules from the hair.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, The Light of Other Days: A Novel of the Transformation of Humanity

“DNA. We believe it will be possible to begin from any analyzable organic fragment—a flake of skin or a nail clipping, enough to record the DNA fingerprint—”
― Arthur C. Clarke, The Light of Other Days: A Novel of the Transformation of Humanity

“Greatness no longer matters. We see now that each human being who dies in the center of a universe: a unique spark of hope and despair, hate and love, going alone into the greater darkness.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, The Light of Other Days

“the equilibrium state of the cosmos is death….”
― Arthur C. Clarke, The Light of Other Days: A Novel of the Transformation of Humanity