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
stars patriotic men
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
intelligent space forever
Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.
giving-up hype president
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
science political fiction
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
behavior interest
Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological
science thinking ideas
Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
book reading writing
I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books.
powerful book desire
Sometimes when I'm in a bookstore or library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am seized by a powerful desire to read all the books, one by one.
dream heart men
No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time. As their material conditions improve, men raise their sights and become discontented with power and possessions that once would have seemed beyond their wildest dreams. And even when the external world has granted all it can, there still remain the searchings of the mind and the longings of the heart.
belief psychological artifacts
Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.
intellectual definitions my-favorite
My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.
science years progress
At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.
stars going-out overhead
Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
fall glasses water
Getting information from the internet is like getting a glass of water from the Niagara Falls.