Arthur C. Clarke citáty (233 citátů, strana 4)

Arthur C. Clarke: 233 citátů1973 lajků

Arthur C. Clarke nejznámější citáty

„Jestli najdeš v životě cestu bez překážek, určitě nikam nevede.“

Arthur C. Clarke

„Každá dostatečně vyspělá technologie se rovná magii.“

Arthur C. Clarke

„Jsem si jistý, že vesmír je plný inteligentního života. Je však příliš inteligentní na to, aby sem přišel.“

Arthur C. Clarke

„Ale žít jenom proto, aby člověk žil, to je dost málo. Život musí obsahovat hodnoty, pro které stojí za to žít.“

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„Existují dvě možnosti. Buď jsme ve vesmíru sami, nebo nejsme. Obě jsou stejně děsivé.“

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„Muži, na rozdíl od žen, mohou myslet na dvě věci zároveň.“

Arthur C. Clarke

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

Arthur C. Clarke: Citáty o životě

„Je asi opravdu lepší být trochu vyšinutý a cítit sa šťasten, než těšit sa duševnímu zdraví a být přitom nešťastný. Nejlepší ze všeho ovšem je žít při zdravém rozumu s pocitem plného štěstí.
Dosažení tohoto cíle bude pro naše potomky patrně najvětší výzvou pro budoucnost. Ba může rozhodnout i tom, zda nějakou budoucnost před sebou vůbec budeme mít.“

Arthur C. Clarke

A. C. Clarke, 19. září 1996

„Život musí obsahovat hodnoty, pro které stojí za to žít.“

Arthur C. Clarke

„Život musí obsahovat hodnoty, pro které stojí za to žít.“

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Arthur C. Clarke: Citáty o lidech

„Když se člověk ptá: „Miluji vůbec?“, odpověď je vždy ne.“

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„Trvalo několik tisíc let, než lidstvo přišlo na to, že existuje několik zaměstnání, která by neměli zastávat lidé, kteří se o ně dobrovolně hlásí, a obzváště tehdy, když projevují příšišné nadšení.“

Arthur C. Clarke kniha Imperial Earth

„Komunikační technologie jsou nezbytné, ale ne dostačující k tomu, aby spolu lidé vycházeli.“

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Arthur C. Clarke citáty a výroky

„Každou dívku potěší, když se jí muž začne dvořit. Otrávit ji může jedině tehdy, když neumí včas přestat.“

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„Jediným způsobem, jak zjistit meze možného, je odvážit se alespoň malý kousek za hranice nemožného.“

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„Pokročilá věda se nedá odlišit od magie.“

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„Vesmír je nekonečný a realita zřejmě překoná veškeré naše představy.“

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„Věda je jediným náboženstvím lidstva.“

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

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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]

„Když význačný, avšak postarší vědec konstatuje, že je něco možné, má skoro jistě pravdu. Když konstatuje, že něco je nemožné, velmi pravděpodobně se mýlí.“

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„Politici by měli číst science-fiction, ne detektivky a westerny.“

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„Jediný způsob, jak se můžeme dostat za hranice možného, je ponořit se do nemožného.“

Arthur C. Clarke

„Nevěřím v astrologii; jsem Střelec a ti jsou skeptičtí.“

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„Dostatečně pokročilou technologii nelze odlišit od magie.“

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„Kdybychom se z dějin vynálezů a objevování měli poučit jen o jediné věci, tak by to byla ta, že i ta nejodvážnější proroctví nakonec vypadají až směšně konzervativně.“

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„Nadměrný zájem o patologické chování byl sám o sobě patologický.“

Arthur C. Clarke

„Neexistovala žádná náhrada reality; člověk by si měl být vědom imitací.“

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Arthur C. Clarke: Citáty anglicky

“The Ramans do everything in threes.”

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Arthur C. Clarke kniha Rendezvous with Rama

Rendezvous with Rama (1972)
1970s

“As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.”

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Voices from the Sky : Previews of the Coming Space Age (1967)
1960s

“Through long and bitter experience, Rajasinghe had learned never to trust first impressions, but also never to ignore them.”

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Arthur C. Clarke kniha The Fountains of Paradise

Zdroj: The Fountains of Paradise (1979), Chapter 2 “The Engineer” (p. 10)

“We always thought the living earth was a thing of beauty. It isn’t. Life has had to learn to defend itself against the planet’s random geological savagery.”

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Arthur C. Clarke kniha The Light of Other Days

Zdroj: The Light of Other Days (2000), Chapter 28

“It is later than you think. May it not be true for this Sundial.”

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Inscription for a Sundial at the University of Moratuwa Sri Lanka (1996) http://www.ent.mrt.ac.lk/~rohan/career/projects/sundial/sundial.html <br class="br">1990s

“What is becoming more interesting than the myths themselves has been the study of how the myths were constructed from sparse or unpromising facts—indeed, sometimes from no facts—in a kind of mute conspiracy of longing, very rarely under anybody’s conscious control.”

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Arthur C. Clarke kniha The Light of Other Days

Zdroj: The Light of Other Days (2000), Chapter 19

“They will have time enough, in those endless aeons, to attempt all things, and to gather all knowledge … no Gods imagined by our minds have ever possessed the powers they will command … But for all that, they may envy us, basking in the bright afterglow of Creation; for we knew the Universe when it was young.”

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Profiles of the Future (1962)
1960s

“After a while Hilvar did his best to steer the conversation away from these meaningless morasses of theology in order to concentrate on the ascertainable facts.”

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Arthur C. Clarke kniha The City and the Stars

Zdroj: The City and the Stars (1956), Chapter 13 (p. 100)

“I have encountered a few "creationists" and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide whether they were really mad, or only pretending to be mad. If I was a religious person, I would consider creationism nothing less than blasphemy. Do its adherents imagine that God is a cosmic hoaxer who has created the whole vast fossil record for the sole purpose of misleading humankind? And, although I do not necessarily agree with the paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin's advocacy of evolution as a major proof of the glory of God, de Chardin's attitude is both logical and inspiring. A creator who laid the foundations for the entire future at the beginning of time is far more awesome than a clumsy tinkerer who constantly modifies his creations and throws away entire species in the process.”

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Presidents, Experts, and Asteroids, essay for journal Science, pp 1532-3 (5 June 1998)
1990s

“Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.”

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The Odyssey File (1984), also quoted in The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners (2004) by Geoff Tibballs, p. 128
1980s

“The best proof that there’s intelligent life in outer space is the fact that it hasn’t come here.”

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Disputed

“The fact was that he suffered from an incurable malady which, it seemed, attacked only Homo sapiens among all the intelligent races of the universe. That disease was religious mania.
Throughout the earlier part of its history, the human race had brought forth an endless succession of prophets, seers, messiahs, and evangelists who convinced themselves and their followers that to them alone were the secrets of the universe revealed. Some of them succeeded in establishing religions which survived for many generations and influenced billions of men; others were forgotten even before their deaths.
The rise of science, which with monotonous regularity refuted the cosmologies of the prophets and produced miracles which they could never match, eventually destroyed all these faiths. It did not destroy the awe, not the reverence and humility, which all intelligent beings felt as they contemplated the stupendous universe in which they found themselves. What it did weaken, and finally obliterate, were the countless religions, each of which claimed with unbelievable arrogance, that it was the sole repository of the truth and that its millions of rivals and predecessors were all mistaken.”

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Arthur C. Clarke kniha The City and the Stars

Zdroj: The City and the Stars (1956), Chapter 13 (p. 99)

“There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.”

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As quoted in Values of the Wise : Humanity's Highest Aspirations (2004) by Jason Merchey, p. 31
2000s and attributed from posthumous publications

“He had discharged his destiny; now, perhaps, he could begin to live.”

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Arthur C. Clarke kniha The City and the Stars

Zdroj: The City and the Stars (1956), Chapter 25 (p. 187)

“If the house is to be demolished tomorrow anyhow, people seem to feel, we may as well burn the furniture today. None of our problems are insoluble…But it seems clear that to prevail we humans will have to act with a smartness and selflessness that has so far eluded us during our long and tangled history.”

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Arthur C. Clarke kniha The Light of Other Days

Zdroj: The Light of Other Days (2000), Chapter 4

“There was no substitute for reality; one should be aware of imitations.”

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Arthur C. Clarke kniha The Fountains of Paradise

Zdroj: The Fountains of Paradise (1979), Chapter 23 “Moondozer” (p. 129)

“SETI is probably the most important quest of our time, and it amazes me that governments and corporations are not supporting it sufficiently.”

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Seti@Home Donor List (2006) http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/donorlist.php <br class="br">2000s and attributed from posthumous publications

“We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.”

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Space and the Spirit of Man (1965)

“If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run — and often in the short one — the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.”

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The Exploration of Space (1951), p. 111
1950s

“As I approach my 90th birthday, my friends are asking how it feels like, to have completed 90 orbits around the Sun. Well, I actually don't feel a day older than 89!”

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90th Birthday Reflections (2007)

“It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.”

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The Exploration of Space (1951), p. 187
1950s

“Just as the human memory is not a passive recorder but a tool in the construction of the self, so history has never been a simple record of the past, but a means of shaping peoples.”

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Arthur C. Clarke kniha The Light of Other Days

Zdroj: The Light of Other Days (2000), Chapter 19

“I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have transmitted to me.”

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Arthur C. Clarke kniha The Fountains of Paradise

Zdroj: The Fountains of Paradise (1979), Chapter 16 “Conversations with Starglider” (p. 94)

“We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up new laboratories in space. They are as much beyond our vision today as fire or electricity would be beyond the imagination of a fish.”

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Space and the Spirit of Man (1965)

“Maybe those nihilist philosophers are right; maybe this is all we can expect of the universe, a relentless crushing of life and spirit, because the equilibrium state of the cosmos is death…”

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Arthur C. Clarke kniha The Light of Other Days

Zdroj: The Light of Other Days (2000), Chapter 28

“A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be true.”

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Arthur C. Clarke kniha The Light of Other Days

Zdroj: The Light of Other Days (2000), Chapter 6

“Clarke's Fourth Law: For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.”

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Profiles of the Future (1999, London: Victor Gollancz) p. 143
On Clarke's Laws

“There was only one thing of which he could be certain now. Boredom would not be a serious problem for a considerable time to come.”

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Arthur C. Clarke kniha The City and the Stars

Zdroj: The City and the Stars (1956), Chapter 11 (pp. 77-78)

“I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about..”

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As quoted in An Enchanted Life : An Adept's Guide to Masterful Magick (2001) by Patricia Telesco, p. 135
2000s and attributed from posthumous publications

“I wanted to kill myself. I would have done it, too, if I had owned a gun. I was considering the gruesome alternatives — pills, slitting my wrists with a razor blade, jumping off a bridge — when another student called to ask me a detailed question on relativity. There was no way, after fifteen minutes of thinking about Mr. Einstein, that suicide was still a viable option. Divorce, certainly. Celibacy, highly likely. But death was out of the question. I could never have prematurely terminated my love affair with physics.”

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"Richard Wakefield" in Rama II (1989)
1980s