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
lying sea forever
2001 was written in an age which now lies beyond one of the great divides in human history ; we are sundered from it forever by the moment when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out on to the Sea of Tranquility. Now history and fiction have become inexorably intertwined.
intelligent space forever
Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.
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.
demand
Science demands patience.
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.
religious behavior function
I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have transmitted to me.
writing sadness goal
There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped toward new ends.
gun crutches
Guns are the crutches of the impotent.
believe religion quests
You don't believe in organized religion, yet a major theme in so many of your works seems to be a quest for God.