Quotes About Imagination

The core of Jupiter, forever beyond human reach, was a diamond as big as the Earth.

They had forgotten much, but they did not know it. They were as perfectly fitted to their environment as it was to them—for both had been designed together. What was beyond the walls of the city was no concern of theirs; it was something that had been shut out of their minds. Diaspar was all that existed, all that they needed, all that they could imagine. It mattered nothing to them that Man had once possessed the stars.

It was idle to speculate, to build pyramids of surmise on a foundation of ignorance.

for there was no vessel—at least of Man's making—anywhere between her and the infinitely distant stars.

Absence of noise is not a natural condition; all human senses require some input. If they are deprived of it, the mind manufactures its own substitutes.

if it really was brilliant I'd have thought of it already.

To be a science fiction writer you must be interested in the future and you must feel that the future will be different and hopefully better than the present. Although I know that most — that many science fiction writings have been anti-utopias — 1984, as an example. And the reason for that is that it's much easier and more exciting to write about a really nasty future than a — placid, peaceful one.

Please leave me alone; let me go on to the stars.

Can you sum up your ideas in less than—oh, a thousand bits?

I'm sure we would not have had men on the moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books

How obvious, now, was that mathematical ratio of its sides, the quadratic sequence 1:4:9! And how naive to have imagined that the series ended there, in only three dimensions!

he filled to perfection the classic recipe for a small boy: "a noise surrounded by dirt.

Critics who suggested that these ideas were too fantastic to be taken seriously were reminded of Niels Bohr's 'Your theory is crazy - but not crazy enough to be true.' If

for a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger. A.C.C.

There's a passage about 'rivers of molten rock that wound their way… until they cooled and lay like twisted dragon-shapes vomited from the tormented earth.' That's a perfect description: how did Tolkien know, a quarter century before anyone ever saw a picture of Io? Talk about Nature imitating Art.

One day, perhaps, the human race would develop a new aesthetic; generations of artists might arise whose ideals were not based upon the natural forms of Earth molded by wind and water.

Jupiter now filled the entire sky; it was so huge that neither mind nor eye could grasp it any longer, and both had abandoned the attempt. If it had not been for the extraordinary variety of color—the reds and pinks and yellows and salmons and even scarlets—of the atmosphere beneath them, Bowman could have believed that he was flying low over a cloudscape on Earth.

science fiction is something that could happen—but usually you wouldn't want it to. Fantasy is something that couldn't happen—though often you only wish that it could.

Arthur C. Clarke

Kat?l?yorum Tanya. Ama Haldane'in ünlü sözünü hat?rla: Evren sadece hayal ettiÄŸimizden daha garip deÄŸil; hayal edebileceÄŸimizden daha garip.

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

I'm lighting a cigarette—I've always wanted to smoke in a space suit.

Arthur C. Clarke