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. ClarkeIf there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods.
Arthur C. ClarkeAs his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful.
Arthur C. Clarke