Art Quote by Brian Boyd

What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.

— Terry Tempest Williams

Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.

— Edward Thorndike

I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.

— David Foster Wallace

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

— Man Ray

When you think about alien intelligences making art, you then have to think about what art is and how bound up it is in…

— David Grinspoon

It is an odd fact of evolution that we are the only species on Earth capable of creating science and philosophy. There easily could…

— Colin McGinn

I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not…

— Roy Lichtenstein

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

I personally cannot discern a shred of evidence for ‘[intelligent] design.’ If 97% of all creatures have gone extinct, some plan isn't working very well!

— Irven DeVore

I hope that someday we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet.

— Sylvia Earle

Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager, would be able to lay out the…

— Jerry Saltz

The fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life - much less intelligence - beyond this Earth does not surprise…

— Arthur C. Clarke