Politics and religion are obsolete. The time has come for science and spirituality.

—VINOBA BHAVE

Quoted by Arthur C. Clarke in his keynote address to the American Astronautical Society’s fifth Robert Goddard Memorial Symposium in Greenbelt, Maryland, on March 14, 1967. Clarke erroneously attributed the statement to Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, who frequently quoted Bhave. The last sentence was underlined by Stanley Kubrick in his copy of Clarke’s address.