Quotes by Arthur C. Clarke

About Arthur C. Clarke:

Sri Lankabhimanya Sir Arthur Charles Clarke was a British - Sri Lankan science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.
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Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

Arthur C. Clarke

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

Arthur C. Clarke

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Arthur C. Clarke

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

Arthur C. Clarke

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Arthur C. Clarke

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

Arthur C. Clarke

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

Arthur C. Clarke

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Arthur C. Clarke

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

Arthur C. Clarke

I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.

Arthur C. Clarke

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?

Arthur C. Clarke

The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.

Arthur C. Clarke

But most of the time, with a contented resignation that comes normally to a man only at the end of a long and busy life, he sat before the keyboard and filled the air with his beloved Bach. Perhaps he was deceiving himself, perhaps this was some merc...

Arthur C. Clarke

Jan had always been a good pianist, and now he was the finest in the world.

Arthur C. Clarke

La única posibilidad de descubrir los límites de lo posible es aventurarse un poco más allá de ellos, hacia lo imposible.

Arthur C. Clarke

Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.

Arthur C. Clarke

["The Devil in the Dark"] impressed me because it presented the idea, unusual in science fiction then now, that something weird, and even dangerous, need not be malevolent. That is a lesson that many of today's politicians have yet to learn.

Arthur C. Clarke

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

Arthur C. Clarke

I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.

Arthur C. Clarke

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here. [ , 1 November 1996]

Arthur C. Clarke

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

Arthur C. Clarke

Author Bio

  • NameArthur C. Clarke
  • DescriptionBritish science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host
  • AliasesSir Arthur Charles Clarke
  • BornDecember 16, 1917
  • DiedMarch 18, 2008
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionInventor; Screenwriter; Writer; Engineer; Novelist
  • WorksRendezvous With Rama; The Fountains Of Paradise
  • AwardsCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire; Nebula Award; Stuart Ballantine Medal; Kalinga Prize