Quotes from Arthur C. Clarke

He felt that strange mingling of kinship and discomfort that all men experience when they gaze thus into the mirror of time.

Even if, to the naked human eye, a waterfall and a shower of bricks appeared very different, they were really much the same. The tiny "bricks" of H2O were too small to be visible to the unaided senses, but they could be easily discerned by the instruments of the physicists.

No such thing as centrifugal force. It's an engineer's phantom. There's only inertia.

The timeless instant passed.

Hay una regla que he intentado respetar toda mi vida: no pierdas nunca el sueño por problemas que no está en tu mano resolver.

The end of the trial was a black hole, waiting to consume Bobby's future, as unavoidable and as unwelcome as death. So he did his best not to think about it.

The universe was vast, but that fact terrified him less than its mystery. George was not a person who thought deeply on such matters, yet sometimes it seemed to him that men were like children amusing themselves in some secluded playground, protected from the fierce realities of the outer world.

five hundred hours of radio and TV pour out over the various channels?

Trvalo nÄ›kolik tisíc let, než lidstvo pÃ…â"¢iÅ¡lo na to, že existuje nÄ›kolik zamÄ›stnání, která by nemÄ›li zastávat lidé, kteÃ…â"¢í se o nÄ› dobrovolnÄ› hlásí, a obzváÅ¡tÄ› tehdy, když projevují pÃ…â"¢íÅ¡iÅ¡né nadÅ¡ení.

Even at absolute zero, residual quantum effects eventually erase too much cellular information to make revival possible.

Jede hinreichend fortschrittliche Technologie ist von Magie nicht zu unterscheiden

He had reached the position where neither personal possessions nor official ceremony could add anything to his stature.

Their movement caused a slight indentation in the loamy soil.

Shuttling back and forth in the equatorial plane where the brilliant stars of Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto - worlds that elsewhere would have counted as planets in their own right, but which here were merely satellites of a giant master.

But you must remember you're dealing with human beings. You can transport them to another world and give them a paradise, but they still come equipped with their fears and insecurities and cultural predilections.

Gravity was down to about half sea level.

Just remember, the mass of the people in China have little or no idea what their leaders are up to, and even less control.

The point, you see, is not the answers themselves, but the mental development we enjoy through striving for those answers.

Isn't that human nature? Most of the time we want it to be better. When it's as good as it can be, we want it to last forever)

Size birkaç soru soray?m,' dedi. 'Hükümdarlar?n Dünya'ya güvenlik, bar?? ve refah getirdiÄŸini inkar edebilir misiniz?' 'Edemem. Gerçekten öyle yapt?lar. Ama özgürlüÄŸümüzü elimizden ald?lar. Ä°nsana s?rf ekmek yetmiyor; baÅŸka ihtiyaçlar? da var.

Kat?l?yorum Tanya. Ama Haldane'in ünlü sözünü hat?rla: Evren sadece hayal ettiÄŸimizden daha garip deÄŸil; hayal edebileceÄŸimizden daha garip.

Gücü doÄŸru ÅŸekilde uygularsan bütün siyasal sonuçlar? çözebilirsin.

He had lost his race. And he knew that he had lost it, not by the few weeks or months that he had feared, but by millennia. The huge and silent shadows driving across the stars, more miles above his head than he dared to guess, were as far beyond his little Columbus as it surpassed the log canoes of paleolithic man. [...] All that the past ages had achieved was as nothing now: only one thought echoed and re-echoed through Reinhold's brain: The human race was no longer alone.

When you all have figgered out how to sail across space to our shores, you'll find yourselves just as welcome as the people who come to your shores.