Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRASwas a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth16 December 1917
Arthur C. Clarke quotes about
thought-provoking youth wonderful
It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.
trying fiction science-fiction
Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.
gravity comfortable seats
Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity.
movie doors great-year
Open the pod bay doors, Hal.
morning lessons firsts
Good morning, Dr. Chandra. This is Hal. I am ready for my first lesson.
sun hundred billions
If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.
mother children farewell
The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.
lying future space
Many, and some of the most pressing, of our terrestrial problems can be solved only by going into space. Long before it was a vanishing commodity, the wilderness as the preservation of the world was proclaimed by Thoreau. In the new wilderness of the Solar System may lie the future preservation of mankind.
travel home men
If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.
men evil good-man
There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.
past technology elderly
1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. 2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. 3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
magic
Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.
beautiful ambition grandchildren
Our own grandchildren may demonstrate that-sometimes- Gigantic is Beautiful.
taken firsts steps
What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.