Quotes About Imagination

You," said Stormgren, "have been reading too much science-fiction.

La vision, le goût, l'esprit visionnaire, l'invention véritable et le talent sont des qualités que peut aider, mais que ne remplacera jamais la plus intelligente des machines pensantes jamais conçues par l'homme.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them.

By mapping out possible futures, as well as a good many improbable ones, the science fiction writer does a great service to the community. He encourages in his readers flexibility of mind, readiness to accept and even welcome change—in one word, adaptability. Perhaps no attribute is more important in this age.

Sometimes, Jean thought a little wearily, he filled to perfection the classic recipe for a small boy: "a noise surrounded by dirt.

well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.

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

British Interplanetary Society.

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

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.

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

A fin-de-siècle philosopher had once remarked—and been roundly denounced for his pains—that Walter Elias Disney had contributed more to genuine human happiness than all the religious teachers in history. Now, half a century after the artist's death, his dreams were still proliferating across the Florida landscape.

Arthur C. Clarke

The Man Who Ploughed the Sea First published in Satellite, June 1957 Collected in Tales from the White Hart This story was written in Miami, in 1954. Despite the lapse of time, many of the themes of this story are surprisingly up-to-date, and a few years ago I was amazed to read a description in a scientific journal of a ship-borne device to extract uranium from sea water! I sent a copy of the story to the inventors, and apologised for invalidating their patent.

The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

Undoubtedly, I am biased, but among these tales such masterpieces as 'The Star', 'The Crystal Egg', 'The Flowering of the Strange Orchid', and, above all, 'The Country of the Blind' blaze like diamonds amid costume jewellery.

They call it the War with the Sky." Bisesa snorted. "That's ridiculous. How can you wage war on an abstraction?" "I suspect that's the point. It means whatever you want it to mean.

Jean thought a little wearily, he filled to perfection the classic recipe for a small boy: "a noise surrounded by dirt.

This is only a work of fiction , The Truth as always will be far stranger

Ja see, mõtles Alvin, mida ta nüüd nägi, ei olnud lihtsalt mälestus. See oli midagi keerukamat - see oli mäluseadme mälestus.

Like his great influence H.G. Wells, Clarke was a futurist and an ad astra guy, an inventor of Telstar twenty years before the engineers had the material to enact his plan.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.