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
statistics eyeballs rely
When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation.
stars eye heaven
Look, whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There is always a last time for everything.) Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
ocean eye animal
Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our world. Whatsoever life we meet will be as strange and alien as the nightmare creatures of the ocean abyss, or of the insect empire whose horrors are normally hidden from us by their microscopic scale.
future eye home
Before the current decade ends, fee-paying passengers will be experiencing suborbital flights aboard privately funded vehicles. . . . It won't be too long before bright young men and women set their eyes on careers in Earth orbit and say: "I want to work 200 kilometers from home-straight up!"
heart giving singh
Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own?
thinking space sea
We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.
certainly pretend thinking worth
I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
beyond discover limits
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
sun hundred billions
If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.
mother children farewell
The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.
dozen littles imagine
Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.
long people tangled
If the house is to be demolished tomorrow anyhow, people seem to feel, we may as well burn the furniture today. None of our problems are insoluble...But it seems clear that to prevail we humans will have to act with a smartness and selflessness that has so far eluded us during our long and tangled history.
taken firsts steps
What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
thought-provoking youth wonderful
It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.