There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligenceโor 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. ClarkeMy favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.
Arthur C. ClarkeThe universe must be full of voices, calling from star to star in a myriad tongues. One day we shall join that cosmic conversation.
Arthur C. ClarkeI'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books.
Arthur C. ClarkeMany, and some of the most pressing, of our terrestrial problems can be solved only by going into space. Long before it was a vanishing commodity, the wilderness as the preservation of the world was proclaimed by Thoreau. In the new wilderness of the Solar System may lie the future preservation of mankind.
Arthur C. Clarke