Quote by David Perlmutter

“Nothing demonstrates this more than man's intelligence: it has a capacity far beyond what would have been necessary in animal terms.”

— Aharon Feldman

Barry L. Jacobs and colleagues from the neuroscience program at Princeton University showed that when mice ran every day on an exercise wheel, they…

— Bernd Heinrich

“I appreciated that all animals have some form of mental life that reflects the architecture of their nervous system.”

— Oliver Sacks

“More and more frequently, we will find ourselves in the position of the lower animals—with a mental apparatus that is unequipped to deal thoroughly…

— Robert B. Cialdini

“We differ from other large mammals, but not much from rodents, in the great variety of habitats we now occupy and in the population…

— Stephen Oppenheimer

“More and more frequently, we will find ourselves in the position of the lower animals—with a mental apparatus that is unequipped to deal thoroughly…

— Joseph Heath

“animals behaved with purpose, it seemed. Unlike people.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Another reptilian brain disguised as a modest mouse in the rat race.”

— Alexander Akyna

“The rats we met the size of small dogs and they watched us go by like they'd figured out that what People were for…

— Sarah Monette

“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

“What sets humans apart from animals is that we have to walk around saying how smart we are, and animals just live their lives.”

— Chanctetinyea J. J. Ouellette

“We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is better than…

— G.K. Chesterton