Animal Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Intelligence is a valuable thing, but it is not usually the key to survival. Sheer fecundity ... usually counts. The intelligent gorilla doesn't do…

— Isaac Asimov

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

— Paul Watson

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

— Arthur C. Clarke

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

— Charles Darwin

Intelligence is of paramount importance to live life sensibly, because without intelligence, there is no clarity. And Clarity is intelligence everyone is capable of.

— Jaggi Vasudev

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

— Anonymous

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

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

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

Intelligence is not necessarily a good thing, something to value or cultivate. It's more like a fifth wheel - necessary or desirable when things…

— Susan Sontag

“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