Bacteria Quote by Isaac Asimov

I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“If some day we build machine brains that surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become very powerful. And, as…

— Nick Bostrom

It really sucks to be the number two intelligent species on this planet; you can just ask gorillas.

— Jaan Tallinn

Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.

— Paul Watson

Is an animal less or more intelligent because it lives without clothes, central heating, and well, atom bombs ?

— Jim Nollman

Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.

— Charles Darwin

The survival value of intelligence is that it allows us to extinct a bad idea, before the idea extincts us.

— Karl Popper

In fact, one of the arguments for searching for intelligent life in space, elsewhere, is that we have no evidence that intelligence has any…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“Was intelligence an inevitability, a consequence of evolution? Bacteria succeeded without a brain, possessing survival skills that rivaled their biological hosts. So why should…

— Todd Crawshaw

“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

“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

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

— Arthur C. Clarke