Animals Quote by Edward Thorndike Download Open image “Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.” — Edward Thorndike ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Animals Intelligence Matter Matter of fact Nature of man
From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found. — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
“Because we tend to equate intelligence with language--particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate abstractions--it is natural to conclude that animals… — Linda Bender Copy Share Image
Understanding the animals' instinct is much much easier than to understand the human beings' (pseudo) intelligence! — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share
Animals are certainly more sophisticated than we used to think. And we shouldn't lump together animals as a group. Crows and chimps and dogs… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal. — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
There is reason to believe that voluntary activity, more than highly developed intellect, distinguishes humans from the animals which stand closest to them. — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
Most of the intelligence out there must be artificial intelligence. We keep looking for critters like us living on a planet like ours, where… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found. — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act. — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics:… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations. — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals. — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable. — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine. — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one fish was caught, he was writhing, then he was thrown against the side of the boat. You couldn't disguise what it was. This was what we did to animals to eat them. The animal went from… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing friction to… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms. This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consciousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression and with all this yet… — Ernest Becker Copy Share
We must love animals in such a powerful way that we should reject to eat them! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I bet plants go like 'Weeeeeeeee!' whenever they're swallowed by a giraffe. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It’s a small thing to help one animal, but to that one animal it’s a big thing — Gene Baur Copy Share Image
“All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
