Man has always assumed that he is more intelligent than dolphins because
he has achieved so much -- the wheel, New York, wars and so on -- while
all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good
time. But, conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were
far more intelligent than man -- for precisely the same reasons.
-- D. Adams, "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
he has achieved so much -- the wheel, New York, wars and so on -- while
all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good
time. But, conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were
far more intelligent than man -- for precisely the same reasons.
-- D. Adams, "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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