"My mind is an incredible thing, and I am constantly in awe of my own capabilities."
"I don't think IQ has anything to do with like real intelligence or what I actually value in intelligence."
"Sea lions have many surprising abilities, including problem-solving and rhythm."
"Chimpanzees displayed a recall ability similar to that of a photographic memory."
"Did you know there are people out there so good at remembering things that they compete in tournaments of learning?"
"They are not animals as folks are led to believe but a people having reasoning and cognitive thinking."
"Human beings have a special capacity for self-awareness."
"We all know that women are just as equipped as men for cognitive abilities."
"Our ability to reason and problem solve; to plan, predict, evaluate, abstract, or create is the envy of the rest of living creation."
"Your brain can handle only one thing at a time."
"Cognitive... ability to move an object just by thinking about it."
"People don't realize that, you know, your brain's potential... 10%... light up the other 90%."
"The extraordinary human mind has processed so much first-rate information that it is managed to feel new things in new ways."
"Animals forced to perform in brutal captivity, especially smart, self-aware animals, are extremely capable of learning and remembering both cruelty and compassion."
"Many autistics have tremendous capacity to learn."
"Intelligence: Our global capacity to think rationally, act purposefully, and deal effectively with our environment."
"If you don't have real-time thinking it's impossible to grow."
"Human beings can literally look into the future regarding a task they're doing now."
"We have this brain that can grasp these things and have these reflections."
"Is there a tension there if you had something that could outperform human beings across a wide range of cognitive tasks? Could we still regard that as a tool, or would it become a colleague?"
"You have an innate intelligence that has the ability to adapt."
"Pattern-seeking is a double-edged sword, wimp slayer. It's a big part of what makes humans the smartest species on the planet."
"Children solve problems far easier than adults."
"Humans are the smartest animals on the planet."
"Kids really can understand a lot more than adults give them credit for."
"Octopuses are amongst the smartest animals on earth."
"How amazing is the female brain? It's really amazing."
"Thinking abilities are just so important in later life to help older adults maintain independence and quality of life."
"Human beings outperform chimps reliably on measures of working memory tasks."
"What really makes us different from other animals is very clear. We've got big ass prefrontal cortexes, we can cook our food, we are far more intelligent, we have far more theory of mind, self-consciousness."
"You lose 10% of our cognitive abilities if we're only 1% dehydrated."
"I think women have 12% more prefrontal cortex and we're better at context write it down."
"It's this underlying fact about our society that we've created an economy and a social order which is more and more giving primacy to cognitive abilities."
"These complex abilities we have of calculating things, listening to music, of following a storyline in a movie."
"Ravens far surpassed chimpanzees in intellectual capability."
"The average human brain is running more than a couple of trillion bits of data every second."
"They're complimented on their intelligence and strategic thinking."
"Our brains have refined these techniques but they didn't invent these techniques."
"You have no idea what your brain is capable of, and it's capable of quite a lot."
"It's no secret that orangutans have an impressive level of intelligence."
"Our capacity for sophisticated abstract and symbolic thought... enables us to do some spectacular things."
"Never underestimate your mental abilities."
"The myth that Goldfish can't remember anything is false. They have GOOD MEMORIES!"
"Women are better at facial recognition than men."
"Elephants are incredibly smart. They are arguably the smartest animal on this list."
"Our brains are really good at remembering spatial information."