Animal Quote by Matt Ridley

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

— Edward Thorndike

Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since

— Anonymous

It wasn't so long ago when all the so-called scientists said that humans were intelligent and that animals weren't, humans were the solitary unchallenged…

— Robin McKinley

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

“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 is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony…

— Anonymous

We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was "just human".

— Jane Goodall

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

— Edward Thorndike

“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

“Humans are distinguished further by the highly effective way in which they have pooled the individual intelligence of single individuals to produce a collective…

— John D. Barrow

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

— Charles Darwin

Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . .

— Chuck Palahniuk