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
broken mind statistics
Those meaningless and unanswerable questions the minds keep returning to, like a tongue exploring a broken tooth.
mind matter should
Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?
envy mind may
They will have time enough, in those endless aeons, to attempt all things, and to gather all knowledge no Gods imagined by our minds have ever possessed the powers they will command But for all that, they may envy us, basking in the bright afterglow of Creation; for we knew the Universe when it was young.
pain people mind
One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
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.
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.