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
mind matter should
Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?
mind lenses fit
The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.
mind religion atheism
Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses.
weed stars mind
And because, in all the Galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers in the fields of stars; they sowed, and sometimes they reaped. And sometimes, dispassionately, they had to weed.
artist solitude mind
Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.
mind universe
In all the universe there is nothing more precious than mind.
mind facts feeble-minds
Only feeble minds are paralyzed by facts.
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’!