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
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.
thinking play evil
I suspect that religion is a necessary evil in the childhood of our particular species. And that's one of the interesting things about contact with other intelligences: we could see what role, if any, religion plays in their development. I think that religion may be some random by-product of mammalian reproduction. If that's true, would non-mammalian aliens have a religion?
stars thinking clouds
I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long.
thinking machines astonishment
I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers.
believe thinking self
I believe any malevolent supercivilisation would have rapidly self-destructed as we may be in the process of doing ourselves. If we do have contact, physical contact with aliens, I think it will be benign.
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.
real men thinking
There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism, in fact you might say that science fiction is escape into reality... It's a fiction which does concern itself with real issues: the origin of man; our future. In fact I can't think of any form of literature which is more concerned with real issues, reality.
stars children thinking
Then he [The Star Child] waited, marshaling his thoughts and brooding over his still untested powers. For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something.
baby men thinking
Since women are better at producing babies, presumably Nature has given men some talent to compensate. But for the moment I can't think of it.
book thinking ideas
When I start on a book, I have been thinking about it and making occasional notes for some time... So I have lots of theme, locale, subjects and technical ideas... I don't worry about long periods of not doing anything. I know my subconscious is busy.
writing thinking answers
I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
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?
beyond discover limits
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.