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....


The Lost Worlds of2001, Chapter 16 (p. 109), New American Library. 1972

Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence — or even in life. Both may be random accidental...

There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence — or even in life. Both may be random accidental...

There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence — or even in life. Both may be random accidental...

There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence — or even in life. Both may be random accidental...