Quotes from Arthur C. Clarke

Magic is just science we don't understand yet

This book was written on an Archives III microcomputer with WordStar software and sent from Colombo to New York on one five-inch diskette. Last-minute corrections were transmitted through the Padukka Earth Station and the Indian Ocean Intelsat V.

Tiempo atrás Norton había llegado a la convicción de que a algunas mujeres no debería permitírseles viajar en las naves espaciales; la ingravidez tenía efectos sobre sus senos que resultaban demasiado perturbadores.Ya era

Gezegenlere bir gün hükmedebilirsiniz. Ama y?ld?zlar insanlara göre deÄŸil.

A hundred failures would not matter, when a single success could change the destiny of the world.

Crime had practically vanished. It had become unnecessary and impossible. When no one lacks anything there is no point in stealing.

This was the moment when history held its breath, and the present sheared asunder from the past as an iceberg splits from its frozen, parent cliffs, and goes sailing out to sea in lonely pride.

The planet had been slowed down - but as its mass was a sextillion times greater than the ship's, the change in its orbit was far too small to be detectable. The time had not yet come when Man could leave his mark upon the Solar System.

There were no mysterious murders to baffle the police and to arouse in a million breasts the moral indignation that was often suppressed envy.

The evidence is confused with mysticism—perhaps the prime aberration of the human mind.

All these potentialities, all these latent powers—we do not possess them, nor do we understand them. Our intellects are far more powerful than yours, but there is something in your minds that has always eluded us.

mysticism –perhaps the main aberration of the human mind.

Milletin tembel süngerlere dönüÅŸmesine ÅŸaÅŸmamal?; her daim emiyorlar, ama asla üretmiyorlar.

It still seemed incredible that one man could have done so much with such primitive equipment. But Cook had been not only a supreme navigator, but also a scientist and—in an age of brutal discipline—a humanitarian. He treated his own men with kindness, which was unusual; what was quite unheard of was that he behaved in exactly the same way to the often hostile savages in the new lands he discovered.

Nothing is deader than yesterday's science-fiction— and Verne belongs to the day before yesterday.

Durante unos cuantos segundos Moon-Watcher permaneció indeciso ante su nueva víctima, intentando comprender el singular y maravilloso hecho de que el leopardo muerto pudiese matar de nuevo. Ahora él era el amo del mundo, y no estaba del todo seguro que hacer a continuación. Mas ya pensaría en algo.

It was the end of civilization, the end of all that men had striven for since the beginning of time. In the space of a few days, humanity had lost its future, for the heart of any race is destroyed, and its will to survive is utterly broken, when its children are taken from it. There

Fifty years is ample time to change the world and it's people almost beyond recognition. All that I'd required for the task are a sound knowledge of social engineering, a clear sight of the intended goal- and power.

Norton was not quite certain what a buck was, but he knew when one had stopped at his desk.

All political problems can be solved by the correct application of power.

When this book was written in the early 1950s, I was still quite impressed by the evidence for what is generally called the paranormal, and used it as a main theme of the story. Four decades later, after spending some millions of dollars of Yorkshire Television's money researching my Mysterious World and Strange Powers programmes, I am an almost total skeptic. I have seen far too many claims dissolve into thin air, far too many demonstrations exposed as fakes.

One by one she would cut through the orbits of Janus, Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion... worlds bearing the names of gods and goddesses who had vanished only yesterday, as time was counted here.

Behind Alystra was the known world, full of wonder yet empty of surprise, drifting like a brilliant but tightly closed bubble down the river of time. Ahead, separated from her by no more than the span of a few footsteps, was the empty wilderness—the world of the desert—the world of the Invaders. Alvin

Oh, yes, safe for humans. Animals too. But there is an exclusion zone.