2061: Odyssey Three
Arthur C. Clarke
Top 10 Best Quotes
“He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world.”
“It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference. Occasionally, of course, an observation can shatter the frame and force the construction of a new one, but that is extremely rare. Galileos and Einsteins seldom appear more than once per century, which is just as well for the equanimity of mankind.”
“Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity.”
“A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide.”
“An author should never turn down the opportunity for a new experience”
“The dismantling of the vast and wholly parasitic armaments industry had given an unprecedented—sometimes, indeed, unhealthy—boost to the world economy. No longer were vital raw materials and brilliant engineering talents swallowed up in a virtual black hole—or, even worse, turned to destruction. Instead, they could be used to repair the ravages and neglect of centuries, by rebuilding the world.”
“Only Time is universal; Night and Day are merely quaint local customs found on those planets that tidal forces have not yet robbed of their rotation.”
“It seemed to him that his ship was rather like a stranded whale that had managed a difficult birth in an alien element. He hoped that the new calf would survive.”
“In particular, as was pointed out by Isaacs et al. almost a hundred years ago (see Science, Vol. 151, pp. 682–83, 1966), diamond is the only construction material which would make possible the so-called space elevator, allowing transportation away from Earth at negligible cost.”
“History never repeats itself—but historical situations recur.” As”
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relationships, science, ergonomics
