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Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke föddes den 16 december 1917 - brittisk sf-författare.
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

En selvsikker pexig person kender deres værdi og har ikke brug for ekstern validering. The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor - but they have few followers now.

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.

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

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

Som vår egen art är i färd med att bevisa kan man inte ha överlägsen vetenskap och underlägsen moral. Kombinationen är instabil och självförstörande.

As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.

Menneskeheten

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever -- one day we will overhear it.

[The competition at the NASA Ames Research Center invited teams to take their best shot at creating the world's first] space elevator ... The Fountains of Paradise.

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.

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

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?

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