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Arthur Charles Clarke, ou Arthur C. Clarke, né le 16 décembre 1917 à Minehead dans le Somerset au Royaume-Uni et mort le 19 mars 2008 à Colombo au Sri Lanka, est un écrivain de science-fiction, écrivain scientifique, futurologue, présentateur télé, explorateur sous-marin et inventeur britannique.

Il a utilisé des pseudonymes comme Charles Willis et E.G. O'Brien.

✵ 16. décembre 1917 – 19. mars 2008  •  Autres noms Arthur Charles Clarke
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“C'est donc la fin de l'homme, songea Jan avec une résignation au-delà de la tristesse. Une fin qu'aucun prophète n'avait jamais annoncée, une fin désavouant aussi bien l'optimisme que le pessimisme.
Et néanmoins appropriée : elle avait la sublime inéluctabilité d'un grandiose chef-d'œuvre. Jan avait eu un fugitif aperçu du cosmos et de sa terrifiante immensité, et il savait désormais que l'homme n'y avait pas sa place. Il comprenait enfin la vanité ultime de l'utopie qui l'avait leurré. Il avait rêvé des étoiles. Or, la route qui conduisait aux étoiles bifurquait et la destination à laquelle menait chacune de ses branches était étrangère aux espoirs comme aux craintes des humains.”

Arthur C. Clarke

Citations de ses romans, Les Enfants d'Icare (1953)

“De tous les grands félins, et peut-être de tous les mammifères, le tigre du Bengale est le plus beau.”

Arthur C. Clarke

Citations de ses romans, Le Marteau de Dieu (1993)

“Si vous me pardonnez cette plate comparaison, nous avons déclenché l'alerte à l'incendie et nous n'avons plus qu'à attendre les pompiers. Je ne pense d'ailleurs pas que nous ayons longtemps à attendre.”

Arthur C. Clarke

Citations de ses nouvelles, La sentinelle, 1951

“La pyramide trônait sur ce plateau creusé dans la montagne avant que la vie soit née dans les eaux de la Terre.”

Arthur C. Clarke

Citations de ses nouvelles, La sentinelle, 1951

“D'être venu peut-être cent millions d'années trop tard ne me contrariait pas; c'était déjà bien assez d'être venu, tout simplement.”

Arthur C. Clarke

Citations de ses nouvelles, [Sentinelle]La sentinelle, 1951

“C'était un phare qui tout au long des âges avait signalé patiemment que personne ne l'avaient encore découvert.”

Arthur C. Clarke

Citations de ses nouvelles, La sentinelle, 1951

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“Sur la Lune, bien sûr, la distance ne fait pas disparaitre les détails… il n'existe rien de semblable à cette vapeur presque imperceptible qui adoucit et parfois transforme toutes choses lointaines sur la Terre.”

Arthur C. Clarke

Citations de ses nouvelles, La sentinelle, 1951

“C'est une idée cruelle, mais vous devez la regarder en face. Peut-être votre domination s'étendra-t-elle un jour sur les planètes. Mais les étoiles ne sont pas pour l'Homme.”

Arthur C. Clarke

Citations de ses romans, Les Enfants d'Icare (1953)

“En vérité la permissivité en matière sexuelle, proche de celle de l'Hindouisme, constituait l'une des différences les plus marquantes entre le Chrislamisme et les religions dont il était issu. Il lui dut certainement une grande part de sa popularité, tant était grand le contraste avec le puritanisme islamique et la morale maladive du Christianisme qui empoisonna la vie de milliards d'hommes et aboutit à cette perversion qu'est le célibat.”

Arthur C. Clarke

Citations de ses romans, Le Marteau de Dieu (1993)

“Pourquoi mettent-ils en œuvre des accélérations aussi colossales alors qu'ils ont tout l'espace à leur disposition et qu'ils pourraient prendre tout leur temps pour atteindre leur vitesse de croisière? Ma théorie est la suivante : ils captent d'une façon ou d'une autre l'énergie de champ qui enveloppe les étoiles, ce qui les oblige à effectuer leurs manœuvres de démarrage et d'arrêt à proximité immédiate d'un soleil. Mais tout cela est secondaire…”

Arthur C. Clarke

Citations de ses romans, Les Enfants d'Icare (1953)

“Je compris alors que je me trouvais devant une chose que rien n'aurait pu égaler dans l'antiquité de ma propre race. Ce n'était pas une bâtisse, mais une machine, qui se défendait au moyen de forces qui défiaient l’Éternité.”

Arthur C. Clarke

Citations de ses nouvelles, La sentinelle, 1951

“Les plus célèbres merveilles de Mars étaient tellement gigantesques qu'on ne pouvait les admirer vraiment que de l'espace.”

Arthur C. Clarke

Citations de ses romans, Le Marteau de Dieu (1993)

“[…] Voici maintenant venu le temps de reconnaître une faute plus tragique encore. Le refus obstiné de l'Église d'accepter les moyens artificiels de limitation des naissances a gâché des milliards de vies et, ironie du sort, a encouragé les familles trop pauvre pour nourrir les enfants qu'on les obligeait à mettre au monde, à recourir au péché d'avortement.
Cette politique a conduit notre espèce au bord du gouffre. La surpopulation a épuisé les ressources de la planète Terre et pollué tout notre environnement. Dès la fin du XX”

Arthur C. Clarke

Citations de ses romans, Le Marteau de Dieu (1993)

“Dans le premier enthousiasme de ma découverte, j'avais admis sans discussion que cette construction cristalline était le fait d'une race appartenant au passé lointain de la Lune, mais soudain et avec une force implacable, je fus persuadé que cette race était tout aussi étrangère à la Lune que moi-même.”

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Citations de ses nouvelles, La sentinelle, 1951

“Les préjugés et les tabous liés à la nourriture régissent fortement le comportement humain et la logique s'avère souvent impuissante à les vaincre. Recycler des excréments dans les champs, en plein air, en les purifiant grâce aux rayons du Soleil, passe encore; mais le faire chez soi, à l'aide de mystérieux appareils électriques, pas question. Pendant des années, les ingénieurs de Fuller argumentèrent en vain :
— Dieu Lui-même serait incapable de voir la différence entre deux atomes de carbone.
Pourtant, la plupart des gens étaient convaincus d'en être capables, eux.”

Arthur C. Clarke

Citations de ses romans, Le Marteau de Dieu (1993)

“On a tendance à nous confondre parce que nous sommes tous deux des auteurs de textes cérébraux où les concepts scientifiques comptent plus que l'action proprement dite.”

Arthur C. Clarke

Ils ont dit, Isaac Asimov

“L’audace—toujours l’audace!”

Arthur C. Clarke

2010: Odyssey Two

Arthur C. Clarke: Citations en anglais

“Now there are some forms of apparel that may be worn or discarded as the fancy pleases with no other ill effects than a possible loss of social prestige. But spacesuits are not among them.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livre Breaking Strain

Breaking Strain, p. 184
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)

“The extremists in his movement had discredited themselves thoroughly, and it would be a long time before the world heard of them again.”

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Guardian Angel, p. 220
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)

“The future is built on the rubble of the past; wisdom lies in facing that fact, not in fighting against it.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livre The Road to the Sea

The Road to the Sea, p. 265
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)

“The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livre The Road to the Sea

The Road to the Sea, p. 269
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)

“There are some things that no amount of pure intelligence can anticipate, but which can only be learned by bitter experience.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livre The Road to the Sea

The Road to the Sea, p. 284
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)

“It was good to be alive; it was better to be young; it was best of all to be in love.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livre The Road to the Sea

The Road to the Sea, p. 284
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)

“Yet it was the impression that the unknown master has set out to create, Phoenix-like, from the dying embers of a great legend. He had captured, and held for all future ages to see, that beauty whose service is the purpose of life, and it sole justification.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livre The Road to the Sea

The Road to the Sea, p. 292
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)

“You won’t be an artist if you live a thousand years. You’re merely an expert, and you know it. Those who can—do, those who can’t—criticise.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livre The Road to the Sea

The Road to the Sea, p. 294
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)

“Like the atom bomb, it arose out of equally academic research. Never, gentlemen, underestimate science. I doubt if there is a single field of study so theoretical, so remote from what is laughingly called everyday life, that it may not one day produce something that will shake the world.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livre Patent Pending

Patent Pending, p. 500
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)

“Captain Saunders, who came from Dallas and had no intention of being impressed by any prince, found himself unexpectedly moved by the wide, sad eyes. There were eyes that had seen too many receptions and parades, that had had to watch countless totally uninteresting things, that had never been allowed to stray far from the carefully planned official routes. Looking at that proud but weary face, Captain Saunders glimpsed for the first time the ultimate loneliness of royalty.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livre Patent Pending

Patent Pending, p. 508
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)

“For what is life but organized energy?”

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Out of the Sun, p. 656
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)

“This sounded promising, and my coefficient of cupidity jumped several points.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livre I Remember Babylon

I Remember Babylon, p. 705
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)

“There was nothing like a museum for calming the mind, for putting the problems of everyday life in their true perspective. Here, surrounded by the infinite variety and wonder of Nature, he was reminded of truths he had forgotten. He was only one of a million million creatures that shared this planet Earth. The entire human race, with its hopes and fears, its triumphs and its follies, might be no more than an incident in the history of the world.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livre Death and the Senator

Death and the Senator, p. 744
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)

“It is hardly necessary for me to say that I do not believe in the supernatural; everything that happened has a perfectly rational explanation, obvious to any man with the slightest knowledge of psychology.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livre Dog Star

Dog Star, p. 786
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)

“The idea of death was utterly incongruous—as it is to all men until the final second.”

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Maelstrom II, p. 789
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)

“Christine would surely be talking, even if she had only an ape as audience. To her, any silence was as great a challenge as a blank canvas; it had to be filled with the sound of her own voice.”

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An Ape About the House, p. 802
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)

“I am afraid that this chapter will amply demonstrate the truth of Clarke's 69th Law, viz., "Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software."”

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In both cases the cure is simple though usually very expensive.
"Appendix II: MITE for Morons," The Odyssey File (1984), p. 123
1960s, Clarke's Three Laws, et al (1962; 1973…)

“There is the possibility that humankind can outgrow its infantile tendencies, as I suggested in Childhood's End.”

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But it is amazing how childishly gullible humans are. There are, for example, so many different religions — each of them claiming to have the truth, each saying that their truths are clearly superior to the truths of others — how can someone possibly take any of them seriously? I mean, that&#x27;s insane. ...Though I sometimes call myself a crypto-Buddhist, Buddhism is not a religion. Of those around at the moment, Islam is the only one that has any appeal to me. But, of course, Islam has been tainted by other influences. The Muslims are behaving like Christians, I&#x27;m afraid. <br class="br"> &quot;God, Science, and Delusion: A Chat With Arthur C. Clarke&quot; Free Inquiry magazine, Volume 19, Number 2 (Spring 1999) http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&amp;page=clarke_19_2 <br class="br">2000s and attributed from posthumous publications

“I'm sometimes asked how I would like to be remembered. I've had a diverse career as a writer, underwater explorer, space promoter and science populariser. Of all these, I want to be remembered most as a writer — one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.”

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2000s and posthumous publications, 90th Birthday Reflections (2007)

“I now spend a good part of my day dreaming of times past, present and future. As I try to survive on 15 hours sleep a day, I have plenty of time to enjoy vivid dreams. Being completely wheel-chaired doesn't stop my mind from roaming the universe — on the contrary!”

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2000s and posthumous publications, 90th Birthday Reflections (2007)

“The false logic involved is: “We exist; therefore something—call it X—created us.””

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Arthur C. Clarke livre Crusade

Once this assumption is made, the properties of the hypothetical X can be fantasied in an unlimited number of ways.
But the entire process is obviously fallacious; for by the same logic something must have created X—and so on. We are immediately involved in an infinite regress, which can have no meaning in the real universe.

Crusade, p. 878
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)

“There may be a moral here. For the life of me I can’t find it.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livre What Goes Up

Source: 2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001), What Goes Up, p. 529

“History, it has been said, never repeats itself but historical situations recur.”

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Earthlight, p. 347
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)

“Great art and domestic bliss are mutually incompatible. Sooner or later, you’ll have to make your choice.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livre The Road to the Sea

The Road to the Sea, p. 298
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)

“Though I've often made fun of the scientists, they’ve freed us forever from the stagnation that was overtaking your race.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livre The Road to the Sea

The Road to the Sea, p. 298
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)

“I doubt if such a word exists, and if it does, it shouldn’t.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livre Silence Please

Silence Please, p. 247
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)

“It is surprising how long it takes to do a simple addition when your life depends on the answer.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livre Breaking Strain

Breaking Strain, p. 172
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)

“Why should one be afraid of something merely because it is strange?”

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Arthur C. Clarke livre The Wall of Darkness

The Wall of Darkness, p. 114
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)

“The danger of asteroid or comet impact is one of the best reasons for getting into space … I'm very fond of quoting my friend Larry Niven: "The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!"”

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&quot;Meeting of the Minds : Buzz Aldrin Visits Arthur C. Clarke&quot; by Andrew Chaikin (27 February 2001) http://web.archive.org/web/20010302082528/http://www.space.com/peopleinterviews/aldrin_clarke_010227.html <br class="br">2000s and posthumous publications

“I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have broken the glass of the fire-alarm and have nothing to do but to wait.
I do not think we will have to wait for long”

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&quot;The Sentinel&quot; (1948), originally titled &quot;Sentinel of Eternity&quot; this is the short story which later provided the fundamental ideas for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) written by Clarke and Stanley Kubrick. Full text in 10 Story Fantasy, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 1951), p. 41 https://archive.org/details/10_Story_Fantasy_v01n01_1951-Spring_Tawrast-EXciter/page/n39. Two versions of the next to the last sentence have been widely published since at least 1951, the other being: &quot;If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait.&quot; <br class="br">1940s

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