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Arthur C. Clarke
Geburtstag: 16. Dezember 1917
Todesdatum: 19. März 2008
Andere Namen:Arthur Charles Clarke
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS, Sri Lankabhimanya, war ein britischer Physiker und Science-Fiction-Schriftsteller. Durch den Film 2001: Odyssee im Weltraum von Stanley Kubrick, der auf einer Kurzgeschichte Clarkes beruht und dessen Drehbuch Clarke gemeinsam mit Kubrick schrieb, wurde er auch außerhalb der Science-Fiction-Szene bekannt. Clarke gilt als Visionär neuer Techniken, die er außer in Science-Fiction-Romanen und Kurzgeschichten auch in wissenschaftlichen Artikeln beschrieb. Zusammen mit Isaac Asimov und Robert A. Heinlein wird er oft als einer der "Big Three" der englischsprachigen Science Fiction aufgeführt.
Zitate Arthur C. Clarke
„Einsteinian time dilation.“
— Arthur C. Clarke
2010: Odyssey Two
„Jede hinreichend fortschrittliche Technologie ist von Magie nicht zu unterscheiden“
— Arthur C. Clarke
Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible
„Jede hinreichend fortgeschrittene Technologie ist von Magie nicht mehr zu unterscheiden.“
— Arthur C. Clarke
Clarkes Drittes Gesetz aus Profiles of the Future - zitiert von Andreas Weber in: Biokapital. Die Versöhnung von Ökonomie, Natur und Menschlichkeit, Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 3827007925, Seite 57.
„Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.“
— Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry Into the Limits of the Possible
„Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. Since the dawn of time, roughly a hundred billion human beings have walked the planet Earth.
Now this is an interesting number, for by a curious coincidence there are approximately a hundred billion stars in our local universe, the Milky Way. So for every man who has ever lived, in this Universe there shines a star.
But every one of those stars is a sun, often far more brilliant and glorious than the small, nearby star we call the Sun. And many--perhaps most--of those alien suns have planets circling them. So almost certainly there is enough land in the sky to give every member of the human species, back to the first ape-man, his own private, world-sized heaven--or hell.
How many of those potential heavens and hells are now inhabited, and by what manner of creatures, we have no way of guessing; the very nearest is a million times farther away than Mars or Venus, those still remote goals of the next generation. But the barriers of distance are crumbling; one day we shall meet our equals, or our masters, among the stars.
Men have been slow to face this prospect; some still hope that it may never become reality. Increasing numbers, however are asking; 'Why have such meetings not occurred already, since we ourselves are about to venture into space?'
Why not, indeed? Here is one possible answer to that very reasonable question. But please remember: this is only a work of fiction.
The truth, as always, will be far stranger.“
— Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey
