I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her.

The line plays on two ideas at once: Clarke’s well-known skepticism about traditional theism, and his enduring fascination with the concept of “God” as a subject of inquiry rather than devotion. By switching to “her,” the quote also subverts the default masculine pronoun for deity, hinting that religious language is culturally contingent and that alternative imaginings can be intellectually fruitful. In Clarke’s broader outlook—science-fictional, cosmological, and exploratory—the divine becomes less a being to worship than a hypothesis, metaphor, or narrative framework worth interrogating. The wit underscores a stance of curiosity without belief: rejecting dogma while remaining engaged with the questions religion tries to answer.