Biology Quote by Alan W. Watts

“Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of…

— H.G. Wells

“Each of us possesses five fundamental, enthralling maps to the natural world: sight, touch, taste, hearing, smell. As we unravel the threads that bind…

— Ellen Meloy

“Intelligence is the capacity to know what we are doing and instinct is just instinct. The results are about the same.”

— Will Cuppy

“It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger and trouble.... Nature never appeals to intelligence…

— H. G. Wells

Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.

— Paul Watson

“Every species, except the human, chose immediate, short-range success by means of specialization. But specialization always leads into blind alleys. It is only by…

— Aldous Huxley

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

— Anonymous

I think our intelligence is a source of toxicity to nature and discomfort to ourselves unless our values are based on planetary values, are…

— Terence McKenna

“We are nature's unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove itself sounder than the reflex. Knowledge is our destiny”

— Jacob Bronowski

“Human intelligence is a function of man’s evolutionary urge; the scientist and the philosopher hunger for truth because they are tired of being merely…

— Colin Wilson

People talk about human intelligence as the greatest adaptation in the history of the planet. It is an amazing and marvelous thing, but in…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Natural selection has served as a kind of intellectual sieve, producing brains and intelligences increasingly competent to deal with the laws of nature.”

— Carl Sagan