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
loving-life two achievement
In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy.
teacher children teaching
The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for their future, not our past...
inspirational motivational positive
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
opportunity self creating
I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
atheist believe insightful
I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.
character maturity civilization
Civilization will reach maturity only when it learns to value diversity of character and of ideas.
intelligent funny-science universe
I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
able
Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God.
death home practice
I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent.
inspirational business science
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
mean experts knows
Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.
god atheist fear
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.
men space safety
The crossing of space ... may do much to turn men's minds outwards and away from their present tribal squabbles. In this sense, the rocket, far from being one of the destroyers of civilisation, may provide the safety-value that is needed to preserve it.
play goal unemployment
The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.