Arthur C. Clarke Intelligent Quotations

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

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.

The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.

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

I have encountered a few 'creationists' and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide whether they were really mad or only pretending to be mad. If I was a religious person, I would consider creationism nothing less than blasphemy. Do its adherents imagine that God is a cosmic hoaxer who has created the whole vast fossil record for the sole purpose of misleading humankind ?

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

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