Arthur C. Clarke citations (224 citations, Page 3)

As quoted in Multiple Intelligences in Practice : Enhancing Self-esteem and Learning in the Classroom (2006) by Mike Fleetham, Section 2 : Using MI
2000s and attributed from posthumous publications

“Then he [The Star Child] waited, marshaling his thoughts and brooding over his still untested powers. For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livre 2001: A Space Odyssey

Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey

“Open the pod bay doors, Hal.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livre 2001: A Space Odyssey

Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey

“Humor was the enemy of desire.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livre 2010: Odyssey Two

Source: 2010: Odyssey Two

“… the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livre 2001: A Space Odyssey

Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey

“The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.”

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As quoted in The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners (2004) by Geoff Tibballs, p. 264
2000s and attributed from posthumous publications

“Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livre Childhood's End

Source: Childhood's End

“The creation of wealth is certainly not to be despised, but in the long run the only human activities really worthwhile are the search for knowledge, and the creation of beauty. This is beyond argument, the only point of debate is which comes first.”

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Source: Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible

“If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livre Rendezvous with Rama

Source: Rendezvous with Rama

“Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livre The Nine Billion Names of God

1950s
Source: "The Nine Billion Names of God", 1953

“But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livre 2001: A Space Odyssey

Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey

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

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“The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livre 2001: A Space Odyssey

Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey

“When in doubt, say nothing and move on.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livre Rendezvous with Rama

Source: Rendezvous with Rama

“Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological”

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Arthur C. Clarke livre 3001: The Final Odyssey

Source: 3001: The Final Odyssey

“Now I can rejoice that I knew you, rather than mourn because I lost you.”

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Source: The Songs Of Distant Earth

“When you are next out of doors on a summer night, turn your head towards the zenith. Almost vertically above you will be shining the brightest star of the northern skies — Vega of the Lyre, twenty-six years away at the speed of light, near enough to the point of no return for us short-lived creatures. Past this blue-white beacon, fifty times as brilliant as our sun, we may send our minds and bodies, but never our hearts.
For no man will ever turn homewards beyond Vega, to greet again those he knew and loved on Earth.”

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We'll Never Conquer Space (1960)

“The hypothesis you refer to as God, though not disprovable by logic alone, is unnecessary for the following reason.
If you assume that the universe can be quote explained unquote as the creation of an entity known as God, he must obviously be of a higher degree of organization than his product. Thus you have more than doubled the size of the original problem, and have taken the first step on a diverging infinite regress. William of Ockham pointed out as recently as your fourteenth century that entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily. I cannot therefore understand why this debate continues.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livre The Fountains of Paradise

Source: The Fountains of Paradise (1979), Chapter 16 “Conversations with Starglider” (p. 95)

“… we have a situation in which millions of vehicles, each a miracle of often unnecssary complication, are hurtling in all directions under the impulse of anything up to 200 horsepower. Many of them are the size of small houses and contain a couple of tons of sophisticated alloys — yet often carry a single passenger. They can travel at a hundred miles an hour, but are lucky if they average forty. In one lifetime they have consumed more irreplaceable fuel than has been used in the whole previous history of mankind. The roads to support them, inadequate though they are, cost as much as a small war; the analogy is a good one, for the casualties are on the same scale.”

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Source: 1970s, Chapter 3 (The Future of Transport) in Profiles of the Future (7th printing, 1972)

“Even though you were once a goddess, Kalidasa’s heaven was only an illusion.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livre The Fountains of Paradise

Source: The Fountains of Paradise (1979), Chapter 11 “The Silent Princess” (p. 67)

“Khedron was content with the order of things as it was. True, he might upset that order from time to time—but only by a little. He was a critic, not a revolutionary. On the placidly flowing river of time, he wished only to make a few ripples; he shrank from diverting its course.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livre The City and the Stars

Source: The City and the Stars (1956), Chapter 7 (p. 44)

“Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.”

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"Sir Arthur's Quotations" http://www.clarkefoundation.org/about-sir-arthur/sir-arthurs-quotations/, The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation.
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“The vendors seemed comical, so intent were they on their slivers of meaningless profit, all unaware of the desolate ages that lay in their own near future, their own imminent deaths.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livre The Light of Other Days

Source: The Light of Other Days (2000), Chapter 26

“If children have interests then education happens.”

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As quoted in Ted Talk "The child-driven education" http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html by Sugata Mitra (2012)
2000s and attributed from posthumous publications

“Somewhere back at the beginning I was chosen to be Jester, and there is only one Jester at a time in Diaspar. Most people think that is one too many.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livre The City and the Stars

Source: The City and the Stars (1956), Chapter 5 (p. 33)

“Others, one suspects, are afraid that the crossing of space, and above all contact with intelligent but nonhuman races, may destroy the foundations of their religious faith. They may be right, but in any event their attitude is one which does not bear logical examination — for a faith which cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.”

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The Exploration of Space (1951)
1950s

“The Information Age offers much to mankind, and I would like to think that we will rise to the challenges it presents. But it is vital to remember that information — in the sense of raw data — is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.”

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As quoted in "Humanity will survive information deluge — Sir Arthur C Clarke" in OneWorld South Asia (5 December 2003) http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/74591/1
2000s and attributed from posthumous publications