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Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

Arthur C. Clarke quotes about thinking

English Writer December 16, 1917 – March 19, 2008

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That requires as much power as a small radio transmitter--and rather similar skills to operate. For it's the application of the power, not its amount, that matters. How long do you think Hitler's career as a dictator of Germany would have lasted, if wherever he went a voice was talking quietly in his ear? Or if a steady musical note, loud enough to drown all other sounds and to prevent sleep, filled his brain night and day? Nothing brutal, you appreciate. Yet, in the final analysis, just as... Arthur C. Clarke
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. Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke quote: "Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I..."
Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering. Arthur C. Clarke
There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism, in fact you might say that science fiction is escape into reality... It's a fiction which does concern itself with real issues: the origin of man; our future. In fact I can't think of any form of literature which is more concerned with real issues, reality. Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke quote: "if one had to think about every footstep one took, ordinary..."
...if one had to think about every footstep one took, ordinary walking would be impossible. Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke quote: "I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are..."
I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about. Arthur C. Clarke

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