Quote by Peter Godfrey-Smith Download Open image ““For an octopus, its arms are partly self”” — Peter Godfrey-Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I am an octopus on four wheels. What are my four free arms for? To better love you, of course.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“The bliss of stroking an octopus’s head is difficult to convey to most people, even to animal lovers.” — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
“octopuses, far more than rats and pigeons, have their own ideas:” — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
When the narrator feels like an octopus, when he says his limbs are starting to multiply, he means he has inklings of orders of… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“In their brief time together Slothrop forms the impression that this octopus is not in good mental health, though where's his basis for comparing?” — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“A giant octopus living way down deep at the bottom of the ocean. It has this tremendously powerful life force, a bunch of long,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The thing is, my father has about as much rhythm as a drunken octopus […]” — Mark Peter Hughes Copy Share Image
“if some octopus moved in next door, I would feel hostile superiority because I have a spine and it didn’t, but that animosity might… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“I am a monster beneath him, with arching hips, an octopus with hands everywhere at once. I don't think anything in the history of… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“But Toulmin and Goodfield's Fabric of the Heavens (1962.), an old book recently reprinted, is my favorite.” — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
“Crabs and some shrimp, in contrast, will groom injured areas.” — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
In a world full of audio visual marvels, may words matter to you and be full of magic. — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
“Octopuses in at least two aquariums have learned to turn off the lights” — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
“All living things affect their environment by making and transforming chemicals, and” — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
“if you focus on the large fossils, you miss most of the life that is present” — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
“Inner speech seems to be an important part of System 2 thinking.” — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
“When you dive into the sea, you are diving into the origin of us all.” — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
“seems plausible that an animal might feel pain or thirst without having an “inner model” of the world,” — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
“They are curious, embracing novelty, protean in behavior as well as in body” — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
“What does it feel like to be an octopus? To be a jellyfish? Does it feel like anything at all? Which were the first… — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
