My favorite quote for today:
“One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.”
― Arthur C. Clarke
What's the next line? I mean, did Clarke say what the basis of morality is?
I found it, but it's not cited so I can't say this is reliable:
“The basis of morality is really very simple and doesn’t require religion at all. It’s this: 'Don’t do unto anybody else what you wouldn’t like to be done to you.' It seems to me that that’s all there is to it.”
From here: https://thecitesite.com/authors/arthur-c-clarke/page/2/
Might require an inter-library loan to know for sure.
You can get one more sentence of context by searching inside the text in Google Books.
https://books.google.com/books/about/Greetings_Carbon_Based_Bipeds.html?id=GbNi8Si_O4UC
Or order it from a library near you.
https://www.worldcat.org/title/41017431
Arthur C. Clarke is one of this century's most visionary and versatile thinkers. In the crowning achievement of his extraordinary career, Clarke has collected his ground-breaking non-fiction pieces into one volume. Charting an exceptional career of over six decades, the essays in Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds! reveal Clarke's piercing mind and lively wit as well as the march of science through our modern age.
Wait! Never mind - Richard Dawkins' organization put the PDF of Clarke's "Credo" essay online.
https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2001/09/22164801/p61.pdf
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