1. It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him. [Arthur C. Clarke]
   
   
   
2. You don't believe in organized religion, yet a major theme in so many of your works seems to be a quest for God. [Arthur C. Clarke]

3. Yes, in a way--a quest for ultimate values, whatever they are. My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents... [Arthur C. Clarke, in _Playboy_ interview with Ken Kelly, 1986, from Arthur C. Clarke: The Authorized Biography by Neil McAleer, Contemporary Books, 1992]
   
   
   
4. You will find men like him in all of the world's religions. They know that we represent reason and science, and, however confident they may be in their beliefs, they fear that we will overthrow their gods. Not necessarily through any deliberate act, but in a subtler fashion. Science can destroy a religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistance of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now. [Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End]
   
   
   
5. I would defend the liberty of concenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent. [Arthur C. Clarke]
   
   
   
6. A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets. [Arthur C. Clarke]
   
   
   
7. The statement that God created man in his own image is ticking like a time bomb in the foundations of Christianity. ,
   
   
   
8. I have encountered a few creationists and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide whether they were _really_ mad, or only pretending to be mad. If I was a religious person, I would consider creationism nothing less than blasphemy. Do its adherents imagine that God is a cosmic hoaxer who has created that whole vast fossil record for the sole purpose of misleading mankind? [Arthur C. Clarke, June 5, 1998, in the essay Presidents, Experts, and Asteroids, pp 1532-3]
   
   
   
9. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. [Arthur C. Clarke, Clarke's Third Law from Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible]

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