Advantage Quote by David Perlmutter

Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a…

— Nick Bostrom

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

— Diogenes

“We humans have grown cleverer but not wiser .”

— Adorno Theodor

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

— Edward Thorndike

We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but…

— Lewis Thomas

“Certainly on this planet it is not apparent that there are beings more intelligent than humans, although a case can be made for dolphins…

— Carl Sagan

“We humans have been brilliantly clever... almost as clever as we think we are, though not, perhaps, as wise.”

— Andrew Marr

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

We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.

— Bryant H. McGill

Nowadays, to say that we are clever animals is not to say something philosophical and pessimistic but something political and hopeful - namely, if…

— Richard Rorty

“I firmly disagree with anyone who says humans are the most advanced, or the most intelligent species on the planet. In fact, only three…

— Israel Morrow