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
magic
Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.
relationship secret encounters
After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.
government important quests
SETI is probably the most important quest of our time , and it amazes me that governments and corporations are not supporting it sufficiently.
statistics eyeballs rely
When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation.
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.
art rocks dragons
There's a passage about 'rivers of molten rock that wound their way... until they cooled and lay like twisted dragon-shapes vomited from the tormented earth.' That's a perfect description: how did Tolkien know, a quarter century before anyone ever saw a picture of Io? Talk about Nature imitating Art.
life time dark
I sometimes wonder how we spent leisure time before satellite television and Internet came along…and then I realise that I have spent more than half of my life in the ‘dark ages’!
careers space imagination
I'm sometimes asked how I would like to be remembered. I've had a diverse career as a writer, underwater explorer, space promoter and science populariser. Of all these, I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.
zero honesty funny-life
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
science may lasts
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
communication technology important
No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.
mind matter should
Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?
religious nice intelligent
I have encountered a few 'creationists' and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide whether they were really mad or only pretending to be mad. If I was a religious person, I would consider creationism nothing less than blasphemy. Do its adherents imagine that God is a cosmic hoaxer who has created the whole vast fossil record for the sole purpose of misleading humankind ?