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Arthur Charles Clarke, mais conhecido como Arthur C. Clarke foi um escritor e inventor britânico radicado no Sri Lanka, autor de obras de divulgação científica e de ficção científica como o conto The Sentinel, que deu origem ao filme 2001: Uma Odisséia no Espaço e o premiado Encontro com Rama. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. Dezembro 1917 – 19. Março 2008  •  Outros nomes Arthur Charles Clarke
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Arthur C. Clarke Frases famosas

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“Tenho certeza que o universo é repleto de vidas inteligentes. Apenas tem sido demasiadamente esperto vir aqui”

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“Qualquer tecnologia suficientemente avançada é indistinguível da magia.”

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke escritor de ficção científica.; "3001: the final odyssey‎" - página 36, de Arthur C. Clarke - Ballantine Books, 1998, ISBN 0345423496, 9780345423498 - 274 páginas

“Ficamos agora no momento decisivo entre duas eras. Atrás de nós está um passado a que nós nunca podemos retornar… A vinda do foguete finalizou um milhão de anos de isolamento… a infância de nossa raça era excedente e a história como nós a sabemos começou.”

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Exploration of Space (1952)

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“Toda idéia revolucionária parece evocar três estágios de reação. Elas podem ser resumidas pelas frases: (1) É completamente impossível. (2) É possível, mas não vale a pena fazer. (3) Eu sempre disse que era uma boa idéia.”

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“Pode ser que nosso destino nesse planeta não seja adorar a Deus, mas sim criá-Lo.”

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It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.
Arthur C. Clarke em "The Mind of the Machine", conforme citado em "Humanitas‎", Volume 6 - Página 79, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, 1970

“Sinto-me como uma lagosta.”

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Arthur Clarke, autor de 2001 – Uma Odisséia no Espaço, encasacado num calor de 40 graus para receber o título de Cavaleiro do Império Britânico, em uma cerimônia no Sri Lanka; citado em Revista Veja, Edição 1 652 -7/6/2000 http://veja.abril.com.br/070600/vejaessa.html

Arthur C. Clarke frases e citações

“Em toda a história do homem, a nossa é a primeira idade que não tem fronteiras novas em terra e mar”

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Arthur Clarke, Em sua obra "Perfil do Futuro"

“A única forma de descobrir os limites do possível é indo mais além deles, ao impossível.”

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Variante: A única maneira de se definir os limites do possível é ir além dele, para o impossível.

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“A maior tragédia em toda a história da humanidade pode ser o seqüestro da moralidade pela religião.”

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“A crença em Deus é aparentemente um artefato psicológico da reprodução em mamíferos.”

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Arthur C. Clarke: Frases em inglês

“I am afraid that this chapter will amply demonstrate the truth of Clarke's 69th Law, viz., "Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software." In both cases the cure is simple though usually very expensive.”

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"Appendix II: MITE for Morons," The Odyssey File (1984), p. 123
On Clarke's Laws

“The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.”

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As quoted in the [Sri Lanka] Sunday Times (31 December 2000) http://www.sundaytimes.lk/001231/news4.html <br class="br">2000s and attributed from posthumous publications

“Long ago, he had made that choice between work and life that can seldom be avoided at the highest levels of human endeavor … Any fool could shuffle genes, and most did. But whether or not history gave him credit, few men could have achieved what he had done — and was about to do.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livro The Fountains of Paradise

Fonte: The Fountains of Paradise (1979), Chapter 39 “The Wounded Sun” (p. 208)

“The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers — and thermonuclear weapons.”

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Foreword to The Collected Stories (June 2000)
2000s and attributed from posthumous publications

“Meanwhile, among all its countless other effects upon human culture, Starglider had brought to its climax a process that was already well under way. It had put an end to the billions of the words of pious gibberish with which apparently intelligent men had addled their minds for centuries.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livro The Fountains of Paradise

Fonte: The Fountains of Paradise (1979), Chapter 16 “Conversations with Starglider” (p. 96)

“If the artist did not know his goal, even the most miraculous of tools could not find it for him.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livro The City and the Stars

Fonte: The City and the Stars (1956), Chapter 2 (p. 13)

“The fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life — much less intelligence — beyond this Earth does not surprise or disappoint me in the least. Our technology must still be laughably primitive, we may be like jungle savages listening for the throbbing of tom-toms while the ether around them carries more words per second than they could utter in a lifetime.”

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

“CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.”

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Quoted in And I Quote: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker (1992) by Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans and Andrew Frothingham, p. 279
1990s

“2001 was written in an age which now lies beyond one of the great divides in human history; we are sundered from it forever by the moment when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out on to the Sea of Tranquility. Now history and fiction have become inexorably intertwined.”

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As quoted in &quot;Writer Arthur C. Clarke Dies at 90&quot; by Ravi Nessman in the Associated Press (18 March 2008) http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jfE8qUikNEG6MVWqYku2k8BD_RcgD8VG4VI00 <br class="br">2000s and attributed from posthumous publications

“Since women are better at producing babies, presumably Nature has given men some talent to compensate. But for the moment I can’t think of it.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livro The Fountains of Paradise

Fonte: The Fountains of Paradise (1979), Chapter 10 “The Ultimate Bridge” (p. 52)

“If the WormCam had shown nothing else, he thought, it was this, with pitiless clarity: that the lives of most humans had been miserable and short, deprived of freedom and joy and comfort, their brief moments in the light reduced to sentences to be endured.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livro The Light of Other Days

Fonte: The Light of Other Days (2000), Chapter 26

“Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livro The Fountains of Paradise

Fonte: The Fountains of Paradise (1979), Chapter 35 “Starglider Plus Eighty” (p. 190)

“Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.”

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Attributed to Clarke on the internet, this has also been attributed to Isaac Asimov in published works.
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“It is not my duty as an historian to predict the future, only to observe and interpret the past. But its lesson is clear enough; we have lived too long out of contact with reality, and now the time has come to rebuild our lives.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livro The City and the Stars

Fonte: The City and the Stars (1956), Chapter 24 (p. 183)

“One fail-safe after another had let them down. Helped by the ionospheric storm, the sheer perversity of inanimate things struck again.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livro The Fountains of Paradise

Fonte: The Fountains of Paradise (1979), Chapter 43 “Fail-Safe” (p. 223)

“All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landings there.”

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2010: Odyssey Two (1982)
1980s

“The fates could not possibly be so malevolent, now that he had only a few hundred meters to go.
He was whistling in the dark, of course. How many aircraft had crashed at the very edge of the runway, after safely crossing an ocean? How many times had machines or muscles failed when there were only millimeters to go? Every possible piece of luck, bad as well as good, happened to somebody, somewhere. He had no right to expect any special treatment.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livro The Fountains of Paradise

Fonte: The Fountains of Paradise (1979), Chapter 53 “Fade-Out” (pp. 272-273)

“There still remained, for all men to share, the linked worlds of love and art. Linked, because love without art is merely the slaking of desire, and art cannot be enjoyed unless it is approached with love.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livro The City and the Stars

Fonte: The City and the Stars (1956), Chapter 5 (p. 37)

“The rash assertion that 'God made man in His own image' is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths, and as the hierarchy of the universe is disclosed to us, we may have to recognize this chilling truth: if there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they cannot be very important gods.”

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Space and the Spirit of Man (1965)

“To obtain a mental picture of the distance to the nearest star, compared to the nearest planet, you must imagine a world in which the closest object to you is only five feet away — and there is nothing else to see until you have travelled a thousand miles.”

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We'll Never Conquer Space (1960)

“If I may be allowed just three wishes, they would be these.
Firstly, I would like to see some evidence of extra-terrestrial life. I have always believed that we are not alone in the universe. But we are still waiting for ETs to call us — or give us some kind of a sign. We have no way of guessing when this might happen — I hope sooner rather than later!
Secondly, I would like to see us kick our current addiction to oil, and adopt clean energy sources. … Climate change has now added a new sense of urgency. Our civilisation depends on energy, but we can't allow oil and coal to slowly bake our planet…
The third wish is one closer to home. I’ve been living in Sri Lanka for 50 years — and half that time, I’ve been a sad witness to the bitter conflict that divides my adopted country.
I dearly wish to see lasting peace established in Sri Lanka as soon as possible.”

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90th Birthday Reflections (2007)

“What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy’s point of view.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livro The Light of Other Days

Fonte: The Light of Other Days (2000), Chapter 5

“All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livro The City and the Stars

Fonte: The City and the Stars (1956), Chapter 23 (pp. 174-175)

“Yet now, as he roared across the night sky toward an unknown destiny, he found himself facing that bleak and ultimate question which so few men can answer to their satisfaction. What have I done with my life, he asked himself, that the world will be poorer if I leave it.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livro Glide Path

Glide Path (1963) Chapter 27
1960s

“Our age is in many ways unique, full of events and phenomena that never occurred before and can never happen again. They distort our thinking, making us believe that what is true now will be true forever, though perhaps on a larger scale. Because we have annihilated distance on this planet, we imagine that we can do it once again. The facts are otherwise, and we see them more clearly if we forget the present and turn our minds towards the past.”

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1960s, We'll Never Conquer Space (1960)

“We have abolished space here on the little Earth; we can never abolish the space that yawns between the stars. Once again, as in the days when Homer sang, we are face-to-face with immensity and must accept its grandeur and terror, its inspiring possibilities and its dreadful restraints.”

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1960s, We'll Never Conquer Space (1960)

“He had wished to convince himself that Comarre was evil. Now he knew that it was not. There would always be, even in Utopia, some for whom the world had nothing to offer but sorrow and disillusion.”

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The Lion of Comarre, p. 151
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)

“News that is sufficiently bad somehow carries its own guarantee of truth. Only good reports need confirmation.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livro Breaking Strain

Breaking Strain, p. 170
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)

“A single neutron begins the chain-reaction that in an instant can destroy a million lives and the toil of generations. Equally insignificant and unimportant are the trigger-events which can sometimes change a man’s course of action and so alter the whole pattern of his future.”

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Arthur C. Clarke livro Breaking Strain

Breaking Strain, p. 181
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)