Clarke, Arthur Charles, Sir

English astrophysicist and science fiction author in Sri Lanka

proposed geosynchronous satellite and communications satellite

wrote novels "2001: A Space Odyssey" 1968, "Rendezvous with Rama" 1973, "3001: The Final Odyssey" 1997

• "Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering."
• "Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories."
• "The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."
• "It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value."
• "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."