Quotes from Arthur C. Clarke

increased solar activity was correlated with religious impulses in humans.

alone of the human race, have never lived before. In literal truth, you are the first child to be born on Earth for at least ten million years.

By the late 50s, the Big Three of science fiction were Clarke, Asimov and Heinlein.

Carente de contacto con el mundo exterior, era un universo en sí misma.

British Interplanetary Society.

Do you realize that every day something like five hundred hours of radio and TV pour out over the various channels? If you went without sleep and did nothing else, you could follow less than a twentieth of the entertainment that's available at the turn of a switch! No wonder that people are becoming passive sponges—absorbing but never creating.

New knowledge—new wisdom—in realms we have never dreamed of before. It may lure us away from the dangers we have encountered: for certainly nothing we can learn from Nature will ever be as great a threat as the peril we have uncovered in our own minds.

you know that the average viewing time per person is now three hours a day? Soon people won't be living their own lives any more. It will be a full-time job keeping up with the various family serials on TV!

As soon as anyone on Earth could see and talk to anyone else by pressing a button, most of the need for cities vanished.

We can be sure of tale; We can only pray for genius

Hilvar knew better than this; he had sensed it instinctively from the first. Alvin was an explorer, and all explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest. What

Las líneas borrosas y confusas, los colores inciertos y opacos demostraban que, si el artista no conocía su meta, las herramientas más milagrosas no eran capaces de lograrla.

He had made the journey from star to man, across the immense desert of the cosmos to the lonely oasis of the human soul.

We can be sure of talent; We can only pray for genius

All that happened was that as the sun passed the meridian at Cape Town it went out. There remained visible merely a pale, purple ghost, giving no heat or light.

Rupert had shepherded his friends round a small but massive table

In that moment it seemed to Brant that from his hilltop he was looking over Time rather than Space: and in his ears there whispered the soughing of the winds of eternity as they sweep into the past.

Miraculous though they were—perhaps the supreme triumph of the science that had produced them—they were the creations of a sick culture, a culture that had been afraid of many things.

Ésa era la respuesta formal; después de escucharla con tanta frecuencia, perdía todo sentido, reducida a una secuencia de sonidos sin significado especial.

people will panic. Riots, looting. You'll see. That's why we keep secrets, Ms. Duflot. Because people can't handle the truth.

It's odd. Sol Invictus—he's such a contrast to the cool thinking of the theists.

El anciano lo miraba con firmeza a través del abismo de los siglos; en sus palabras pesaba la inmensurable sabiduría de una larga vida en contacto con hombres y máquinas.

Nonsense," he laughed. "It's nothing to be afraid of. It's only a purr-pull peephole eater.

Quando a era do gelo terminou, muitas coisas da vida primitiva do planeta também haviam terminado— inclusive os homens-macaco. Mas estes, diferentes de outros animais, tinham deixado descendentes. Não haviam sido simplesmente extintos, mas sim transformados. Os criadores de instrumentos foram recriados por seus próprios instrumentos.