Alien life Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

When it comes to social interaction, the chimpanzees appear to be just as intelligent as we are.

— Frans de Waal

“We humans, as species, are interested in communication with extraterrestrial intelligence. Would not a good beginning be improved communication with terrestral intelligence, with other…

— Carl Sagan

We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking - all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But…

— Jane Goodall

Chimps can do all sorts of things we thought that only we could do - like tool-making and abstraction and generalisation. They can learn…

— Jane Goodall

Conversation with animals could happen, but I think it would be easier for it to happen with creatures we share a bit more with…

— Hal Whitehead

Chimpanzees are an evolutionary hair's-width from us.... Now imagine a species on Earth, or anywhere else, as smart compared with humans as humans are…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

“It is inconceivable that you would ever see two chimpanzees carrying a log together.”52 I was stunned. Chimps are arguably the second-smartest species on…

— Jonathan Haidt

We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far short of that. They don't have the…

— Richard Dawkins

“What are the chances that this first and only smart species in the history of life on Earth has enough smarts to completely figure…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

If animals could talk, they would tell us that the human beings should be simply more simple and less complicated.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well; if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for granted. By…

— Alice Walker