Animal Quote by Robin McKinley

“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

At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal.

— Matt Ridley

“Humans nowadays completely dominate the planet not because the individual human is far smarter and more nimble-fingered than the individual chimp or wolf, but…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“It amazes me how people can close their minds off to the size of the Universe. With billions of stars, millions of galaxies, and…

— Coriander Woodruff

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

“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 nowadays completely dominate the planet not because the individual human is far smarter and more nimble-fingered than the individual chimp or wolf, but…

— Yuval Noah Harari

We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Humans have existed only for the last 0.001 percent of cosmic time. All of which says that - unless the Homo sapiens brain is…

— Seth Shostak

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

— Edward Thorndike

It is an odd fact of evolution that we are the only species on Earth capable of creating science and philosophy. There easily could…

— Colin McGinn

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

— Anonymous