religion-necessary-evil-childhood-particular-species-one-interesting-things

I suspect that religion is a necessary evil in the childhood of our particular species. And that's one of the interesting things about contact with other intelligences: we could see what role, if any, religion plays in their development. I think that religion may be some random by-product of mammalian reproduction. If that's true, would non-mammalian aliens have a religion?

Arthur C. Clarke
0/5 (0)

Arthur C. Clarke's Popular Quotes

Religion is a byproduct of fear.

- Arthur C. Clarke

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

- Arthur C. Clarke

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all alo…

- Arthur C. Clarke

The future is not to be forecast, but created.

- Arthur C. Clarke

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.

- Arthur C. Clarke

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

- Arthur C. Clarke

In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - c…

- Arthur C. Clarke

The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.

- Arthur C. Clarke

Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

- Arthur C. Clarke
0 Comments

Login to join the discussion