Engineering Quote by Stephen Hawking

There will come a time when the human race and super intelligence will coexist to create a richer and happier life.

— Masayoshi Son

When homo sapiens is changing, it will not be by the whole race gaining simultaneously whatever qualities better fit it for survival, but rather…

— Charles Galton Darwin

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

Neanderthals might think differently than we do. We know that they had a larger cranial size. They could even be more intelligent than us.…

— George M. Church

If there's something else already out there in the universe, it would almost certainly have puts limits on our growth of intelligence. And the…

— Zoltan Istvan

I don't think the emergence of a superhuman intelligence would be at all catastrophic but much more likely to be beneficial - just as…

— John L. Casti

With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a…

— Stephen Hawking

Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection have molded…

— Peter Singer

I want to know what changed in fully modern humans, compared with Neanderthals, that made a difference. What made it possible for us to…

— Svante Paabo

“Recent studies suggest we are already in a period of extreme disequilibrium. Over the past 10,000 years human evolution has occurred 10-100x faster than…

— Juan Enriquez

Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust.

— Ray Kurzweil

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

— Anonymous