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Arthur C. Clarke, właśc. sir Arthur Charles Clarke – brytyjski prozaik, pisarz fantastycznonaukowy, propagator kosmonautyki. M.in. na podstawie jego koncepcji powstały stacje orbitalne.

Jego najbardziej znanym dziełem jest książka 2001: Odyseja kosmiczna oraz nakręcony przez Stanleya Kubricka film o tym samym tytule według wspólnego scenariusza Clarke’a i Kubricka. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. Grudzień 1917 – 19. Marzec 2008  •  Natępne imiona Arthur Charles Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke Fotografia
Arthur C. Clarke: 218 cytatów1 Polubienie

Arthur C. Clarke słynne cytaty

„To jest puste, ciągnie się w nieskończoność i… O mój Boże, tam jest pełno gwiazd!”

Arthur C. Clarke książka 2001: Odyseja kosmiczna

ostatnie słowa nadane na Ziemię przez Davida Bowmana.
Odyseja Kosmiczna 2001

„Bez broni, którą tak często zwracał przeciwko sobie, Człowiek nigdy nie podbiłby świata. Włożył w nią całe swoje umiejętności, ona zaś służyła mu dobrze przez wieki. Jednak teraz – dopóki istnieje broń – Człowiek otrzymuje czas na kredyt.”

Arthur C. Clarke książka 2001: Odyseja kosmiczna

Odyseja Kosmiczna 2001

„Jeśli starszawy, uznany naukowiec mówi, że coś jest możliwe, niemal z pewnością ma rację, lecz jeśli mówi, że to jest niemożliwe, najprawdopodobniej się myli.”

Arthur C. Clarke

„Nie chciałbym się upierać, Dave, ale ja jestem niezdolny do popełniania omyłek.”

Arthur C. Clarke książka 2001: Odyseja kosmiczna

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Odyseja Kosmiczna 2001

„Każdą rewolucyjną ideę można podsumować trzema fazami – to niemożliwe, nie będę marnować czasu – to możliwe, ale nie warte zachodu – mówiłem przez cały czas, że to był dobry pomysł.”

Arthur C. Clarke

„Jedyny sposób, by odkryć granice możliwości, to przekroczyć je i sięgnąć po niemożliwe.”

Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke cytaty

„Minkowski spacetime.”

Arthur C. Clarke książka Światło minionych dni

The Light of Other Days

„Artur Clarke, od dawna członek brytyjskiego towarzystwa astronautycznego i doskonały popularyzator, napisał mnóstwo opowiadań i powieści SF, wykazując znaczną biegłość w rzemiośle i niemałą oryginalność pomysłów (wspomnieliśmy np. o jego nowelkach „metafizycznych” Gwiazda i 9 bilionów imion Boga’). Napisał też książeczkę na poły fantastyczną i na poły futurologiczną, w której okazuje się rzetelnym i pomysłowym informatorem i przewodnikiem po państwie możliwości naukowotechnicznych.”

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Źródło: Stanisław Lem, Fantastyka i futurologia

„Rok 2010: Opracowano pierwsze generatory kwantowe (wyłapujące energię kosmiczną). Dostępne w formie jednostek przenośnych oraz odpowiednie do zapotrzebowań gospodarstw domowych, które produkują moc rzędu kilku kilowatów, stają się niewyczerpanym źródłem energii. Duże elektrownie zostają wyłączone – wraz z demontażem sieci kończy się era słupów wysokiego napięcia.”

Arthur C. Clarke

Źródło: Keith Tutt, W poszukiwaniu nieograniczonej energii, wyd. Amber, seria Tajemnice Nauki

„Dostatecznie zaawansowana technologia nie różni się od magii.”

Arthur C. Clarke

Źródło: Gregory Hartley, Maryann Karinch, Podręcznik manipulacji, Warszawa 2011, wyd. Bellona, s. 65.

„Po raz pierwszy tak wiele uwagi poświęca się przyszłości, co zakrawa trochę na ironię, bo przyszłości możemy wcale nie mieć.”

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Arthur C. Clarke: Cytaty po angielsku

“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." In both cases the cure is simple though usually very expensive.”

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"Appendix II: MITE for Morons," The Odyssey File (1984), p. 123
On Clarke's Laws

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

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Arthur C. Clarke

As quoted in the [Sri Lanka] Sunday Times (31 December 2000) http://www.sundaytimes.lk/001231/news4.html <br class="br">2000s and attributed from posthumous publications

“Long ago, he had made that choice between work and life that can seldom be avoided at the highest levels of human endeavor … Any fool could shuffle genes, and most did. But whether or not history gave him credit, few men could have achieved what he had done — and was about to do.”

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Arthur C. Clarke książka The Fountains of Paradise

Źródło: The Fountains of Paradise (1979), Chapter 39 “The Wounded Sun” (p. 208)

“The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers — and thermonuclear weapons.”

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Foreword to The Collected Stories (June 2000)
2000s and attributed from posthumous publications

“Meanwhile, among all its countless other effects upon human culture, Starglider had brought to its climax a process that was already well under way. It had put an end to the billions of the words of pious gibberish with which apparently intelligent men had addled their minds for centuries.”

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Arthur C. Clarke książka The Fountains of Paradise

Źródło: The Fountains of Paradise (1979), Chapter 16 “Conversations with Starglider” (p. 96)

“If the artist did not know his goal, even the most miraculous of tools could not find it for him.”

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Arthur C. Clarke książka The City and the Stars

Źródło: The City and the Stars (1956), Chapter 2 (p. 13)

“The fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life — much less intelligence — beyond this Earth does not surprise or disappoint me in the least. Our technology must still be laughably primitive, we may be like jungle savages listening for the throbbing of tom-toms while the ether around them carries more words per second than they could utter in a lifetime.”

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"Credo" (1991); also in Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds! : Collected Essays, 1934-1998 (1999), p. 360
1990s

“CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.”

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Quoted in And I Quote: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker (1992) by Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans and Andrew Frothingham, p. 279
1990s

“2001 was written in an age which now lies beyond one of the great divides in human history; we are sundered from it forever by the moment when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out on to the Sea of Tranquility. Now history and fiction have become inexorably intertwined.”

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As quoted in &quot;Writer Arthur C. Clarke Dies at 90&quot; by Ravi Nessman in the Associated Press (18 March 2008) http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jfE8qUikNEG6MVWqYku2k8BD_RcgD8VG4VI00 <br class="br">2000s and attributed from posthumous publications

“Since women are better at producing babies, presumably Nature has given men some talent to compensate. But for the moment I can’t think of it.”

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Arthur C. Clarke książka The Fountains of Paradise

Źródło: The Fountains of Paradise (1979), Chapter 10 “The Ultimate Bridge” (p. 52)

“If the WormCam had shown nothing else, he thought, it was this, with pitiless clarity: that the lives of most humans had been miserable and short, deprived of freedom and joy and comfort, their brief moments in the light reduced to sentences to be endured.”

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Arthur C. Clarke książka Światło minionych dni

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

“Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.”

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Arthur C. Clarke książka The Fountains of Paradise

Źródło: The Fountains of Paradise (1979), Chapter 35 “Starglider Plus Eighty” (p. 190)

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

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Attributed to Clarke on the internet, this has also been attributed to Isaac Asimov in published works.
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“It is not my duty as an historian to predict the future, only to observe and interpret the past. But its lesson is clear enough; we have lived too long out of contact with reality, and now the time has come to rebuild our lives.”

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Arthur C. Clarke książka The City and the Stars

Źródło: The City and the Stars (1956), Chapter 24 (p. 183)

“One fail-safe after another had let them down. Helped by the ionospheric storm, the sheer perversity of inanimate things struck again.”

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Arthur C. Clarke książka The Fountains of Paradise

Źródło: The Fountains of Paradise (1979), Chapter 43 “Fail-Safe” (p. 223)

“All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landings there.”

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2010: Odyssey Two (1982)
1980s

“The fates could not possibly be so malevolent, now that he had only a few hundred meters to go.
He was whistling in the dark, of course. How many aircraft had crashed at the very edge of the runway, after safely crossing an ocean? How many times had machines or muscles failed when there were only millimeters to go? Every possible piece of luck, bad as well as good, happened to somebody, somewhere. He had no right to expect any special treatment.”

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Arthur C. Clarke książka The Fountains of Paradise

Źródło: The Fountains of Paradise (1979), Chapter 53 “Fade-Out” (pp. 272-273)

“There still remained, for all men to share, the linked worlds of love and art. Linked, because love without art is merely the slaking of desire, and art cannot be enjoyed unless it is approached with love.”

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Arthur C. Clarke książka The City and the Stars

Źródło: The City and the Stars (1956), Chapter 5 (p. 37)

“The rash assertion that 'God made man in His own image' is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths, and as the hierarchy of the universe is disclosed to us, we may have to recognize this chilling truth: if there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they cannot be very important gods.”

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Space and the Spirit of Man (1965)

“To obtain a mental picture of the distance to the nearest star, compared to the nearest planet, you must imagine a world in which the closest object to you is only five feet away — and there is nothing else to see until you have travelled a thousand miles.”

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We'll Never Conquer Space (1960)

“If I may be allowed just three wishes, they would be these.
Firstly, I would like to see some evidence of extra-terrestrial life. I have always believed that we are not alone in the universe. But we are still waiting for ETs to call us — or give us some kind of a sign. We have no way of guessing when this might happen — I hope sooner rather than later!
Secondly, I would like to see us kick our current addiction to oil, and adopt clean energy sources. … Climate change has now added a new sense of urgency. Our civilisation depends on energy, but we can't allow oil and coal to slowly bake our planet…
The third wish is one closer to home. I’ve been living in Sri Lanka for 50 years — and half that time, I’ve been a sad witness to the bitter conflict that divides my adopted country.
I dearly wish to see lasting peace established in Sri Lanka as soon as possible.”

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90th Birthday Reflections (2007)

“What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy’s point of view.”

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Arthur C. Clarke książka Światło minionych dni

Źródło: The Light of Other Days (2000), Chapter 5

“All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.”

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Arthur C. Clarke książka The City and the Stars

Źródło: The City and the Stars (1956), Chapter 23 (pp. 174-175)

“Yet now, as he roared across the night sky toward an unknown destiny, he found himself facing that bleak and ultimate question which so few men can answer to their satisfaction. What have I done with my life, he asked himself, that the world will be poorer if I leave it.”

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Arthur C. Clarke książka Glide Path

Glide Path (1963) Chapter 27
1960s

“Our age is in many ways unique, full of events and phenomena that never occurred before and can never happen again. They distort our thinking, making us believe that what is true now will be true forever, though perhaps on a larger scale. Because we have annihilated distance on this planet, we imagine that we can do it once again. The facts are otherwise, and we see them more clearly if we forget the present and turn our minds towards the past.”

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1960s, We'll Never Conquer Space (1960)

“We have abolished space here on the little Earth; we can never abolish the space that yawns between the stars. Once again, as in the days when Homer sang, we are face-to-face with immensity and must accept its grandeur and terror, its inspiring possibilities and its dreadful restraints.”

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1960s, We'll Never Conquer Space (1960)

“He had wished to convince himself that Comarre was evil. Now he knew that it was not. There would always be, even in Utopia, some for whom the world had nothing to offer but sorrow and disillusion.”

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The Lion of Comarre, p. 151
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)

“News that is sufficiently bad somehow carries its own guarantee of truth. Only good reports need confirmation.”

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Arthur C. Clarke książka Breaking Strain

Breaking Strain, p. 170
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)

“A single neutron begins the chain-reaction that in an instant can destroy a million lives and the toil of generations. Equally insignificant and unimportant are the trigger-events which can sometimes change a man’s course of action and so alter the whole pattern of his future.”

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Arthur C. Clarke książka Breaking Strain

Breaking Strain, p. 181
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)

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