19 Quotes by Peter Godfrey-Smith

The octopuses seemed to be neither friends nor enemies, but in a state of complicated coexistence.

In a world full of audio visual marvels, may words matter to you and be full of magic.

A scoop of pure honey set in a green bowl.

If we want to understand other minds, the minds of cephalopods are the most other of all.

The chemistry of life is an aquatic chemistry. We can get by on land only by carrying a huge amount of salt water around with us.

What is the point of building a large nervous system if your life is over in a year or two? The machinery of intelligence is expensive, both to build and to run.

For an octopus, its arms are partly self.

What does it feel like to be an octopus? To be a jellyfish? Does it feel like anything at all? Which were the first animals whose lives felt like something to them?

They are curious, embracing novelty, protean in behavior as well as in body.