After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.
Arthur C. ClarkeStichwörter: friendship love romance relationships
Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of doom without any sense of apprehension. The man who looks at the onrushing tidal wave, the descending avalanche, or the spinning funnel of the tornado, yet makes no attempt to flee, is not necessarily paralyzed with fright or resigned to an unavoidable fate. He may simply be unable to believe that the message of his eyes concerns him personally. It is all happening to somebody else.
Arthur C. ClarkeStichwörter: fear
But it had been widely argued that advanced intelligence could never arise in the sea; there were not enough challenges in so benign and unvarying an environment.
Arthur C. ClarkeStichwörter: evolution
At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.
Arthur C. ClarkeIt is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference. Occasionally, of course, an observation can shatter the frame and force the construction of a new one, but that is extremely rare. Galileos and Einsteins seldom appear more than once per century, which is just as well for the equanimity of mankind.
Arthur C. ClarkeStichwörter: science
He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world.
Arthur C. ClarkeStichwörter: relationships
Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity.
Arthur C. ClarkeStichwörter: ergonomics
How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean.
Arthur C. ClarkeStichwörter: science science-fiction
Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.
Arthur C. ClarkeStichwörter: wisdom technology
I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.
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