Arthur C. Clarke citations

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

Citations de ses nouvelles, La sentinelle, 1951

Citations de ses nouvelles, La sentinelle, 1951

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

Citations de ses nouvelles, La sentinelle, 1951

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

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

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

Citations de ses nouvelles, La sentinelle, 1951

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

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

Citations de ses nouvelles, La sentinelle, 1951

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

Ils ont dit, Isaac Asimov

2010: Odyssey Two

Ah, but which king? The monarch who had stood on these granite flagstones — scarcely worn then, eighteen hundred years ago — was probably an able and intelligent man; but he failed to conceive that the time could ever come when he would fade into an anonymity as deep as that of his humblest subjects.
Source: 1970s, The Fountains of Paradise (1979), Ch. 11 “The Silent Princess”, p. 65

“People are people.” Bert shrugged.
“What you’re really saying is that people are animals,” Crane replied. “And I say to you, it doesn’t have to be that way. We can make a civilization, a real civilization, built on real understanding of ourselves and our universe.”
Source: 1990s, Richter 10 (1996), Chapter 20, “Shimani-Gashi” (p. 362)

Source: 1990s, 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997) p. 32
Contexte: calmly accepted behaviour we would consider atrocious. And believed in the most mindboggled... Nonsense, which surely any rational person would dismiss out of hand.' 'Examples, please.' 'Well... every year in some countries thousands of little girls were hideously mutilated to preserve their virginity? Many of them died - but the authorities turned a blind eye.' 'I agree that was terrible - but what could my government do about it?' 'A great deal - if it wished. But that would have offended the people who supplied it with oil and bought its weapons, like the landmines that killed and maimed civilians by the thousand.'

Source: 1990s, Richter 10 (1996), Chapter 4, “Geomorphological Processes” (p. 77)

At least war wasn't respectable any more, and the United Nations was always doing its best to stop the wars that did break out.''Not very successfully: I'd give it about three out of ten.
1990s, 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997)

Source: 1990s, 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997)

1990s, 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997), p. 97, Acknowledgements

1990s, 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997), p. 88, Epilogue

1990s, 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997), p. 87

1990s, 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997), p. 73

1990s, 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997)

Source: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Sunstorm (2005), Chapter 28, “The Ark” (p. 217)

Source: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Sunstorm (2005), Chapter 27, “The Tin Lid” (p. 207)

Source: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Sunstorm (2005), Chapter 24, “BDO” (p. 182)

Source: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Sunstorm (2005), Chapter 9, “Lunar Descent” (p. 53)

Source: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Firstborn (2007), Chapter 49, “Areosynchronous” (p. 313)

Source: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Firstborn (2007), Chapter 29, “Alexei” (p. 187)

Source: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Firstborn (2007), Chapter 26, “The Stone Man” (p. 172)

Source: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Firstborn (2007), Chapter 13, “Fortress Sol” (p. 77)

Source: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Time's Eye (2003), Chapter 21, “Return to Jamrud” (p. 181)

Source: 1990s, Richter 10 (1996), Chapter 22, “Richter Ten” (p. 386)

Source: 1990s, Richter 10 (1996), Chapter 18, “Hidden Faults” (p. 327)

Source: 1990s, Richter 10 (1996), Chapter 18, “Hidden Faults” (p. 323)

Source: 1990s, Richter 10 (1996), Chapter 12, “Continental Drift” (p. 227)

Source: Exploration of Space (1952)