Arthur C. Clarke Quotes About Aliens

Quotes about: Aliens

• Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Life, Lonely, Loneliness

  "Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the Twenty-First Century". Book by Michio Kaku, 1997.

• There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence—or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of its operations like the beautiful patterns on a butterfly's wings. The insect would fly just as well without them.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Wings

• I suspect that religion is a necessary evil in the childhood of our particular species. And that's one of the interesting things about contact with other intelligences: we could see what role, if any, religion plays in their development. I think that religion may be some random by-product of mammalian reproduction. If that's true, would non-mammalian aliens have a religion?

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Thinking, Play, Evil

  "God, science, and delusion". "Free Inquiry" Interview with Matt Cherry, March 22, 1999.

• Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our world. Whatsoever life we meet will be as strange and alien as the nightmare creatures of the ocean abyss, or of the insect empire whose horrors are normally hidden from us by their microscopic scale.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Ocean, Eye, Animal

• I believe any malevolent supercivilisation would have rapidly self-destructed as we may be in the process of doing ourselves. If we do have contact, physical contact with aliens, I think it will be benign.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Believe, Thinking, Self

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