Arthur C. Clarke Quotes About Intelligent Life

Quotes about: Intelligent Life

• I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Science, Intelligent, Space

  IRC discussion with Gentry Lee at Sci Fi Channel, November 1, 1996.

• Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Intelligent, Space, Forever

• The best proof of intelligent life in space is that it hasn't come here.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Intelligent, Space, Proof

• The best proof that there's intelligent life in the universe is that it hasn't come here.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Intelligent, Intelligent Life, Universe

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Finding intelligent life would encourage people and also of course the opportunity of learning a tremendous amount, but this is a danger. We might be so overwhelmed with knowledge and information, that we might be depressed or even become suicidal - because what's the point if they're thousands of years ahead of us? Why should we bother? - or become the ultimate couch potatoes.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Suicidal, Intelligent, Opportunity

  Source: www.salon.com

• In fact, one of the arguments for searching for intelligent life in space, elsewhere, is that we have no evidence that intelligence has any survival value. The most successful creatures on this planet are the cockroaches. They've been around, what is it, 100 million years or so and I suspect they'll still be there 100 million years in the future. Maybe intelligence is an evolutionary aberration which dooms its possessors in the way armor may have doomed some of the dinosaurs.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Successful, Intelligent, Survival

  Source: www.salon.com

• I've been saying for a long time that I'm hoping to find intelligent life in Washington.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Intelligent, Long, Long Time

  "Meeting of the Minds: Buzz Aldrin Visits Arthur C. Clarke". Andrew Chaikin, Space Illustrated Magazine, February 27, 2001.

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