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
nature science law
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
funny science ideas
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.
science may lasts
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
trying fiction science-fiction
Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.
science political fiction
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
science thinking ideas
Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
science years progress
At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.
science self moral
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.
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.]
science space would-be
Using material ferried up by rockets, it would be possible to construct a "space station" in ... orbit. The station could be provided with living quarters, laboratories and everything needed for the comfort of its crew, who would be relieved and provisioned by a regular rocket service. (1945)
science technology numbers
Only small minds are impressed by large numbers.
inspirational business science
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
intelligent funny-science universe
I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
science technology possible-and-impossible
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.