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
atheist names evil
Religion is a by-product of fear. For much of human history it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn’t killing people in the name of god a pretty good definition of insanity?
atheist religion atheism
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
future ironic age
This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
mind religion atheism
Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses.
stars children thinking
Then he [The Star Child] waited, marshaling his thoughts and brooding over his still untested powers. For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something.
men alive ratios
Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.
long-ago would-be dull
. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.
inspirational educational men
We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?
communication science years
It will be possible in a few more years to build radio controlled rockets which can be steered into such orbits beyond the limits of the atmosphere and left to broadcast scientific information back to the Earth. A little later, manned rockets will be able to make similar flights with sufficient excess power to break the orbit and return to Earth. (1945) [Predicting communications satellites.]
answers asks
When one has to ask, "Am I really in love?" the answer is always "No".
men bombs ticking-time
The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths.
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.
way free-will protect-you
You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.
giving perspective world
The realisation that our small planet is only one of many worlds gives mankind the perspective it needs to realise sooner that our own world belongs to all its creatures.