#animal

The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called "life", expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#animal #being #being prepared #called #circus

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#accurately #after #animal #before #bone

I think breakfast is the one meal when you don't have to eat animal, maybe. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#breakfast #eat #i #i think #maybe

Think how nature makes things compared to how we humans make things." We talked about how animals don't just preserve the next generation; they typically preserve the environment for the ten-thousandth generation. While human industrial processes can produce Kevlar, it takes a temperature of thousands of degrees to do it, and the fiber is pulled through sulfuric acid. In contrast, a spider makes its silk - which per gram is several times stronger than steel - at room temperature in water. ↗

— William Powers

#environment #humans #kevlar #preservation #silk

There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#believe #cottage #descended #inferior #man

They don't know how the world is shaped. And so they give it a shape, and try to make everything fit it. They separate the right from the left, the man from the woman, the plant from the animal, the sun from the moon. They only want to count to two. ↗

— Emma Bull

#count #everything #fit #give #how

But perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that there are no walls between humans and the elephants except those that we put up ourselves, and that until we allow not only elephants, but all living creatures their place in the sun, we can never be whole ourselves. ↗

— Lawrence Anthony

#animals #elephants #inspirational #inspirational

<...> I’ve never believed there is any animal more dangerous than a human being. I never will. It’s the intelligence. It’s the mind that makes it so. ↗

— Maggie Shayne

#human-being #intelligence #mind #intelligence

The keepers would give the gorillas an assortment of fruits and vegetables each afternoon, and on this particular occasion, Judy Sievert tossed Nina an apple, which rolled away. Instead of going to get it, Nina just 'sat there sadly,' in Judy's words. Judy continued her rounds, handing out yams and apples to the other gorillas, but Nina sat there looking appleless and downtrodden. Taking pity, Judy tossed her another apple. As soon as Nina had it, she got up and went over to where the first apple had rolled away, taking it too. ↗

— Eugene Linden

#deception #gorillas #intelligence

If an animal does something, we call it instinct. If we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence. ↗

— Will Cuppy

#intelligence #intelligence