Bovine Quote by Gary Anderson

“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

Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.

— Ingrid Newkirk

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

— Aharon Feldman

From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.

— Edward Thorndike

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

— Diogenes

“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

“No animal suffers worse than a human being.”

— Patrick White

“The human brain is actually dumber than you think it is”

— Sohn Won-Pyung

“Sometimes animals are more human than people and other times people are more animal than animals”

— Michelangelo Saez

“The problem is not that dolphins are dumber than we thought, but that our anthropomorphism inevitably makes it hard to understand an intelligence other…

— Carl Zimmer

“Discriminations suit animals, not humans. And yet, the unfortunate reality is, it is the humans that discriminate each other on the grounds of imaginary…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Intelligence fails because it is human, no stronger than the power of one mind to understand another. (480)”

— Tim Weiner