Apes Quote by Spider Robinson

It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to make knowing obsolete.

— Sugata Mitra

We made it nearly 20 centuries, a bunch of monkeys with PH Ds.

— Jimmy Buffett

If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph…

— Daniel Dennett

“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 we build a machine with the intellectual capability of one human, within five years, its successor will be more intelligent than all of…

— James Barrat

“To compare the rate of progress of the biological evolution of intelligence to that of technological evolution, consider that the most advanced mammals have…

— Ray Kurzweil

Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical scale, that is…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“humans had to become the nicest of all apes before they could also evolve into the smartest.”

— Stefan Klein

Man is not going to wait passively for millions of years before evolution offers him a better brain.

— Corneliu E. Giurgea

“In all probability there is an infinite variety of mental states that no Sapiens, bat or dinosaur ever experienced in 4 billion years of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The second cognitive revolution, dreamed up by techno-humanists, might do the same to us, producing human cogs who communicate and process data far more…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Darwin was wrong. Man's still an ape

— Jerome Lawrence