Flores, Javier. 10 frases geniales de Arthur C. Clarke. Publicado en Muy Interesante https://www.muyinteresante.es/cultura/arte-cultura/articulo/10-frases-geniales-de-arthur-c-clarke-941387200082 Consultado el 15 de diciembre de 2018
Frases célebres de Arthur C. Clarke
Frabetti, Carlos. Arthur C. Clarke o la razón soñadora. Publicado en Público el 15 de diciembre de 2007 https://www.publico.es/ciencias/arthur-c-clarke-o-razon.html Consultado el 15 de diciembre de 2018
“La magia es solo ciencia que no entendemos aún”
Magic's just science that we don't understand yet
Fuente: Brown, Jordan D. Science Stunts: Fun Feats of Physics. Ilustrado por Anthony Owsley. Edición ilustrada. Editorial Charlesbridge Publishing, 2016. ISBN 9781607349419. Página 6.
Frases de hombres de Arthur C. Clarke
Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.
2001: una odisea espacial. Arthur C. Clarke. Basado en el guión de Stanley Kubrik y Arthur C. Clarke. 1968. Editorial New American Library, 1968. Página 7, prólogo.
Childhood's End
2001: A Space Odyssey
Frases de vida de Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke Frases y Citas
Tales from the White Hart
“Cualquier tecnología suficientemente avanzada es indistinguible de la magia”
Variante: Toda tecnología lo suficientemente avanzada es indistinguible de la magia.
Fuente: El bosque mágico. Lev Grossman. Ediciones B, 2015. ISBN 978-84-90194-01-0
Fuente: Extremera Pacheco, Natalio; Fernández Berrocal. Pablo. Inteligencia emocional y educación: Psicología. Editorial Grupo 5, 2016. ISBN 978-84-94482-12-0.
“La inteligencia del planeta es constante, y la población sigue aumentando”
¿Son los seres humanos cada vez más tontos?. Publicado en El Nuevo Día el 1 de junio de 2013. https://www.elnuevodia.com/estilosdevida/hogar/nota/sonlossereshumanoscadavezmastontos-1522687/ Consultado el 15 de diciembre de 2018.
“No creo en Dios pero estoy muy interesado en ella”
I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her
Fuente: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005-2008. ODNB Print Series. Editor Lawrence Goldman. Edición ilustrada y revisada. Editorial OUP Oxford, 2013. ISBN 9780199671540. p. 219.
“Qué inapropiado llamar Tierra a este planeta, cuando es evidente que debería llamarse Océano”
Fuente: Citada en: El satélite que observará la lluvia y las tormentas está listo para despegar http://ciencia.nasa.gov/ciencias-especiales/26feb_gpm/. Noticias Científicas de la NASA, 26 de febrero de 2014.
“Una fe que no pueda sobrevivir la colisión con la verdad no vale muchos arrepentimientos”
A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets. Arthur C. Clarke
The Exploration of Space. Arthur C. Clarke. Editorial Literary Licensing, LLC, 2013. ISBN 9781494052119
2001: A Space Odyssey
“Carente de contacto con el mundo exterior, era un universo en sí misma.”
The City and the Stars
Childhood's End
Arthur C. Clarke: Frases en inglés
Fuente: 2000s and posthumous publications, The Light of Other Days (2000), Ch. 6
Ah, but which king? The monarch who had stood on these granite flagstones — scarcely worn then, eighteen hundred years ago — was probably an able and intelligent man; but he failed to conceive that the time could ever come when he would fade into an anonymity as deep as that of his humblest subjects.
Fuente: 1970s, The Fountains of Paradise (1979), Ch. 11 “The Silent Princess”, p. 65
“People are people.” Bert shrugged.
“What you’re really saying is that people are animals,” Crane replied. “And I say to you, it doesn’t have to be that way. We can make a civilization, a real civilization, built on real understanding of ourselves and our universe.”
Fuente: 1990s, Richter 10 (1996), Chapter 20, “Shimani-Gashi” (p. 362)
“What we find incredible is the way that people - right up to the early 2000s!”
Fuente: 1990s, 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997) p. 32
Contexto: calmly accepted behaviour we would consider atrocious. And believed in the most mindboggled... Nonsense, which surely any rational person would dismiss out of hand.' 'Examples, please.' 'Well... every year in some countries thousands of little girls were hideously mutilated to preserve their virginity? Many of them died - but the authorities turned a blind eye.' 'I agree that was terrible - but what could my government do about it?' 'A great deal - if it wished. But that would have offended the people who supplied it with oil and bought its weapons, like the landmines that killed and maimed civilians by the thousand.'
“So many people did it that it was no longer an obsession; it was a demographic.”
Fuente: 1990s, Richter 10 (1996), Chapter 4, “Geomorphological Processes” (p. 77)
“Of course, we in the so-called developed countries thought we were civilized.”
At least war wasn't respectable any more, and the United Nations was always doing its best to stop the wars that did break out.''Not very successfully: I'd give it about three out of ten.
1990s, 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997)
Fuente: 1990s, 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997)
1990s, 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997), p. 97, Acknowledgements
1990s, 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997), p. 88, Epilogue
1990s, 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997), p. 73
1990s, 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997)
“All the religiosity around worries me—doesn’t it you?”
Fuente: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Sunstorm (2005), Chapter 28, “The Ark” (p. 217)
“Such craziness captured media attention, but was fortunately still rare.”
Fuente: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Sunstorm (2005), Chapter 27, “The Tin Lid” (p. 207)
Fuente: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Sunstorm (2005), Chapter 24, “BDO” (p. 182)
Fuente: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Sunstorm (2005), Chapter 9, “Lunar Descent” (p. 53)
Fuente: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Firstborn (2007), Chapter 49, “Areosynchronous” (p. 313)
“You do realize how many impossible things have to be true for that to have happened?”
Fuente: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Firstborn (2007), Chapter 29, “Alexei” (p. 187)
Fuente: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Firstborn (2007), Chapter 26, “The Stone Man” (p. 172)
“Slickness of presentation didn’t imply comprehensiveness of knowledge.”
Fuente: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Firstborn (2007), Chapter 13, “Fortress Sol” (p. 77)
Fuente: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Time's Eye (2003), Chapter 21, “Return to Jamrud” (p. 181)
Fuente: 1990s, Richter 10 (1996), Chapter 22, “Richter Ten” (p. 386)
“Thinkers prepare the revolution; bandits carry it out.”
Fuente: 1990s, Richter 10 (1996), Chapter 18, “Hidden Faults” (p. 327)
Fuente: 1990s, Richter 10 (1996), Chapter 18, “Hidden Faults” (p. 323)
Fuente: 1990s, Richter 10 (1996), Chapter 12, “Continental Drift” (p. 227)
Fuente: Exploration of Space (1952)