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
fiction remember stranger
But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.
atheist believe insightful
I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.
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.
mean successful moon
If man survives for as long as the least successful of the dinosaurs-those creatures whom we often deride as nature's failures-then we may be certain of this: for all but a vanishingly brief instant near the dawn of history, the word 'ship' will mean- 'spaceship.'
artist solitude mind
Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.
ideas three done
New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
depressing communication mean
The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.
life real next
The only real problem in life is what to do next.
weapons changing-environment dinosaurs
The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers — and thermonuclear weapons.
change ideas interesting
People go through four stages before any revolutionary development: 1. It's nonsense, don't waste my time. 2. It's interesting, but not important. 3. I always said it was a good idea. 4. I thought of it first.
imagine stranger universe
When you finally understand the universe, it will not only be stranger than you imagine, it will be stranger than you can imagine.
omnipotence boredom succeed
They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed.
reality path use
Any path to knowledge is a path to God-or Reality, whichever word one prefers to use
interesting facts becoming
What is becoming more interesting than the myths themselves has been the study of how the myths were constructed from sparse or unpromising facts indeed, sometimes from no facts in a kind of mute conspiracy of longing, very rarely under anybody's conscious control.