Ancestors Quote by Steven Pinker

“The entire evolutionary record on our planet, particularly the record contained in fossil endocasts, illustrates a progressive tendency toward intelligence. There is nothing mysterious…

— Carl Sagan

As far as I can see, our concentration of different abilities in one species - there's nothing I can see that in this Darwinian…

— Freeman Dyson

It's us that's really amazing. As far as I can see, our concentration of different abilities in one species - there's nothing I can…

— Freeman Dyson

There are a lot of smart creatures out there. Dolphins, elephants, and whales are smart. And there are some really smart birds. I know…

— Sylvia Earle

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

— Anonymous

“Evolution gradually produced ever more intelligent people.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

In Earth, among millions of lineages or organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence ; this makes me…

— Ernst Mayr

No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history.

— Stephen Jay Gould

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

We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history.

— Thomas Keating

I now believe there is a God...I now think it [the evidence] does point to a creative Intelligence almost entirely because of the DNA…

— Anonymous