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Sir Arthur Charles Clarke byl britský autor science fiction a vynálezce, nejvíce známý svým románem 2001: Vesmírná odysea. Společně s Robertem Heinleinem a Isaacem Asimovem byli nazýváni „Velkou trojkou science fiction“. Byl předním představitelem hard science fiction a technického optimismu.

✵ 16. prosinec 1917 – 19. březen 2008   •   Další jména Arthur Charles Clarke
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„Muži, na rozdíl od žen, mohou myslet na dvě věci zároveň.“

Varianta: Muži na rozdíl od žen, mohou myslet na dvě věci zároveň.

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„Jev létajících talířů nám nic neříká o inteligenci někde ve vesmíru, ale zato dokazuje, jak je vzácná na Zemi.“

Zdroj: [Grün, Marcel, Marcel Grün, Mimozemské civilizace: mýtus nebo skutečnost?, Kája Saudek, Odpovědný redaktor Jiří Renč a PhDr. Věra Matějů; Technická redaktorka Hana Ullrichová, 1, Horizont, nakladatelství Socialistické akademie ČSSR, Praha, 1987, 192, Otazník, 1. Hosté na planetě Zemi, 31, česky]

Arthur C. Clarke: Citáty anglicky

“My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.”

Arthur C. Clarke kniha 3001: The Final Odyssey

Chapter 19
Zdroj: 3001: The Final Odyssey

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

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

“Perhaps our role on this planet is not to worship God — but to create Him.”

"The Mind of the Machine" in Report on Planet Three and Other Speculations (1972)
1970s

“It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.”

As quoted in Duh! : The Stupid History of the Human Race (2000) by Bob Fenster, p. 208
2000s and attributed from posthumous publications

Arthur C. Clarke citát: “It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.”

“It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.”

Arthur C. Clarke kniha 2010: Odyssey Two

Zdroj: 2010: Odyssey Two

“It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.”

Arthur C. Clarke kniha 2001: Vesmírná odysea

Zdroj: 2001: A Space Odyssey

“Science is the only religion of mankind.”

Arthur C. Clarke kniha Childhood's End

Zdroj: Childhood's End

“Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.”

Arthur C. Clarke kniha 2001: Vesmírná odysea

Zdroj: 2001: A Space Odyssey

“One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.”

As quoted in The Making of Kubrick's 2001 (1970) by Jerome Agel, p. 300
1970s
Kontext: One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. Two-thirds of 2001 is realistic — hardware and technology — to establish background for the metaphysical, philosophical, and religious meanings later.

“Clarke's First Law: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.”

"Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination" in Profiles of the Future (1962)

Perhaps the adjective "elderly" requires definition. In physics, mathematics, and astronautics it means over thirty; in the other disciplines, senile decay is sometimes postponed to the forties. There are, of course, glorious exceptions; but as every researcher just out of college knows, scientists of over fifty are good for nothing but board meetings, and should at all costs be kept out of the laboratory!

"Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination" in Profiles of the Future (1962; as revised in 1973)
On Clarke's Laws

“This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.”

As quoted in The Peter Plan : A Proposal for Survival (1976) by Laurence J. Peter
1970s

“There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.”

Arthur C. Clarke kniha Childhood's End

Guardian Angel, p. 220
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)
Zdroj: Childhood's End

“Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets.”

Arthur C. Clarke kniha Childhood's End

1950s
Zdroj: Childhood's End (1953), p. 15
Kontext: 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.

“Behind every man now alive stand 30 ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.”

Arthur C. Clarke kniha 2001: Vesmírná odysea

1960s
Zdroj: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) "Foreword"

“Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence”

Arthur C. Clarke kniha 3001: The Final Odyssey

Zdroj: 3001: The Final Odyssey

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