Quotes by Intelligent It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz. Art Blakey music intelligent ears I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here. Arthur C. Clarke intelligent space science It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. Arthur C. Clarke good-life intelligence intelligent 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 intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium. Arthur C. Clarke minorities intelligent real The best proof of intelligent life in space is that it hasn't come here. Arthur C. Clarke proof intelligent space 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? Arthur C. Clarke nice intelligent religious I've been saying for a long time that I'm hoping to find intelligent life in Washington. Arthur C. Clarke long-time intelligent long 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 survival intelligent successful 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 The best proof that there's intelligent life in the universe is that it hasn't come here. Arthur C. Clarke intelligent-life universe intelligent Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house - in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bare ass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up. Arthur Miller intelligent girl blow A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues? Arthur Schopenhauer genius intelligent men Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point. Arthur Schopenhauer world-suffering pain intelligent What's a country? It's just an administrative unit, a glorified municipality. Why do we imbue it with esoteric meaning and protect it with nuclear bombs? I can't bow down to a municipality... it's just not intelligent. The bastards will do what they have to do, and we'll do what we have to do. Even if they annihilate us, we'll go down on the other side. Arundhati Roy bombs intelligent country Phones with numerical keypads worked best for dialing phone calls. Incidentally, phone calls tend to be the primary function of a phone. 'Smartphones' completely ignore these basic facts, resulting in some of the least intelligent devices I've seen yet. Oh the irony. Ashly Lorenzana phones intelligent facts Building intelligent machines can teach us about our minds - about who we are - and those lessons will make our world a better place. To win that knowledge, though, our species will have to trade in another piece of its vanity. Astro Teller intelligent winning science The most intelligent hearers are those who enjoy most heartily the simplest preaching. It is not they who clamor for superlatively intellectual or aesthetic sermons. Daniel Webster used to complain of some of the preaching to which he listened. "In the house of God" he wanted to meditate "upon the simple varieties, and the undoubted facts of religion;" not upon mysteries and abstractions. Austin Phelps intelligent simple house Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization. Ayn Rand attractive intelligent art Through all the years that I spent formulating my philosophical system, I was looking desperately for “intelligent agreement” or at least for “intelligent disagreement.” I found neither. Today, I am not looking for “intelligent disagreement” any longer ... What I am looking for is intelligent agreement. Ayn Rand intelligence intelligent agreement «345678910111213»