Source: Parable of the Sower (1993), Chapter 4 (p. 29)
“Don't assume that a species is intelligent because it produces intelligent individuals.”
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Infinity Beach (2000)
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Source: The Mote in God's Eye (1974), Chapter 3 “Dinner Party” (p. 31)
“Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.”
Paul Watson
(1950) Canadian environmental activist
Worldfest video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnhqmF-RBu4
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Source: Parable of the Sower (1993), Chapter 10 (p. 101)
“Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.”
Charles Darwin
(1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"
“We have intelligent species on our planet that we are not even trying to communicate with.”
Paul Watson
(1950) Canadian environmental activist
Worldfest video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnhqmF-RBu4
Jack McDevitt
(1935) American novelist, Short story writer
Source: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Chindi (2002), Chapter 31 (p. 432)
Charles Darwin
(1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"
The earliest known appearance of this basic statement is a paraphrase of Darwin in the writings of Leon C. Megginson, a management sociologist at Louisiana State University. [[Megginson, Leon C., Lessons from Europe for American Business, Southwestern Social Science Quarterly, 1963, 44(1), 3-13, p. 4]] Megginson's paraphrase (with slight variations) was later turned into a quotation. See the summary of Nicholas Matzke's findings in "One thing Darwin didn't say: the source for a misquotation" http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/one-thing-darwin-didnt-say at the Darwin Correspondence Project. The statement is incorrectly attributed, without any source, to Clarence Darrow in Improving the Quality of Life for the Black Elderly: Challenges and Opportunities : Hearing before the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, first session, September 25, 1987 (1988).
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Clarence Darrow
(1857–1938) American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union
As quoted in Improving the Quality of Life for the Black Elderly: Challenges and Opportunities : Hearing before the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, first session, September 25, 1987 (1988)
This quote's earliest known source is from Leon C. Megginson (see Charles Darwin)
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