Quotes About Arthur C. Clarke

In 1929, as a young man, British biologist J. D. Bernal wrote a book entitled "The World, The Flesh and the Devil" that Arthur C. Clarke called, "the most brilliant attempt at scientific prediction ever made.

The phenomenon of UFO doesn't say anything about the presence of intelligence in space. It just shows how rare it is here on the earth.

We're trying to apply Clarke's Law." "I don't recall it. Maybe it was while I was out with mumps." "Arthur C. Clarke," Pop told her. "Great man—too bad he was liquidated in The Purge.

Oh God, there were so many stars you could have used. What was the need to give these people to the fire, that the symbol of their passing might shine above Bethlehem?

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software.

One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.

He did not know that the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as he looked at the emaciated body he felt a dim disquiet that was the ancestor of sadness.

no on of intelligence resents the inevitable.

Because politics is the science of the possible, it only appeals to second-rate minds. The first raters only interested in the impossible

Good morning, Dr. Chandra. This is Hal. I am ready for my first lesson.

The meteorites of 1908 and 1947 had struck uninhabited wilderness; but by the end of the twenty-first century there was no region left on Earth that could be safely used for celestial target practice.

The knowledge that [he] had passed a loveless, institutionalized childhood and had escaped from his origins by prodigies of pure intellect, at the cost of all other human qualities, helped one to understand him—but not to like him.

Well, I guess [2001: A Space Odyssey] legitimized [science fiction], particularly for people who looked down on science fiction; you know, the intelligentsia. My definition of the intelligentsia: someone who's educated beyond their intelligence.

Floyd sometimes wondered if the Newspad, and the fantastic technology behind it, was the last word in man's quest for perfect communications.

I am a HAL Nine Thousand computer Production Number 3. I became operational at the Hal Plant in Urbana, Illinois, on January 12, 1997.

Even a doomed man might reasonably be expected to take some slight interest in a few thousand square meters of gems. He

I would be greatly distressed if this book contributed still further to the seduction of the gullible, now cynically exploited by all the media.

throbbed into silence… "And that's the way it was—goodbye, wonderful and terrible Twentieth

He was now probably the world's leading authority on the greatest explorer of all time

Tranquillity was not a state of mind that could be sustained for long.

One sample is poor statistics, my math prof used to say.

forty-one was a "very special number, the initial integer in the longest continuous string of quadratic primes.

Oh God, there were so many stars you could have used. What was the need to give these people to the fire, that the symbol of their passing might shine above Bethlehem?

Yet there was also something slightly spooky about them. Norton could never understand how men with advanced scientific and technical training could possibly believe some of the things he had heard Cosmo Christers state as incontrovertible fact.