Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End Quotes

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.

…once science had declared a thing possible, there was no escape from its eventual realization…

...a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.

Let us say that you might have become a telepathic cancer, a malignant mentality which in its inevitable dissolution would have poisoned other and greater minds.

Western man had relearned-what the rest of the world had never forgotten-that there was nothing sinful in leisure as long as it did not degenerate into mere sloth.

…mysticism –perhaps the main aberration of the human mind.