Others, one suspects, are afraid that the crossing of space, and above all contact with intelligent but nonhuman races, may destroy the foundations of their religious faith.It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.Behind us is a past to which we can never return. We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Two versions of the next to the last sentence have been widely published since at least 1951, the other being: "If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait."ġ950s It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars. This is the short story which later provided the fundamental ideas for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) written by Clarke and Stanley Kubrick." The Sentinel" (1948), originally titled "Sentinel of Eternity".I do not think we will have to wait for long If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have broken the glass of the fire-alarm and have nothing to do but to wait. I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming.… I do not think we will have to wait for long.
Quotes 1940s I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. 2.1 Commentary on - or derivatives of - Clarke's Laws.1.7.2 The Collected Stories of Arthur C.
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