What a Fish Knows Quotes

“The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. —Eden Phillpotts Just”
― Jonathan Balcombe, What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins

“What we know about fishes is only a tiny slice of what they know.”
― Jonathan Balcombe, What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins

“They have the options of grating their teeth in their jaws, grinding additional sets of teeth lining their throat, rubbing bones together, stridulating their gill covers, and even—as we’ll see—expelling bubbles from their anuses.”
― Jonathan Balcombe, What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins

“El objetivo es mostrar que los peces son seres individuales cuyas vidas tienen un valor intrínseco, al margen de la utilidad que tengan para nosotros como, por ejemplo, fuente de obtención de beneficios o entretenimiento.”
― Jonathan Balcombe, What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins

“El campo científico moderno de la ecología cognitiva acepta que la inteligencia se modula según las necesidades de supervivencia que un animal debe afrontar durante su vida cotidiana.”
― Jonathan Balcombe, What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins

“El conocimiento es sumamente poderoso: apuntala la ética y espolea revoluciones.”
― Jonathan Balcombe, What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins

“her act of removing them from their element to suffocate symbolizes the suffering they endured at our hands, and her extraordinary sympathy, expressed at such a tender age and still felt today, reminds us of the infinite potential for humans, when we are aware, to do good in the world.”
― Jonathan Balcombe, What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins

“photos of their gaping, rotting bodies stretching to the horizon remind me that our subject's name is synonymous with it's own demise, for the word fish means both the animal and the act of catching it”
― Jonathan Balcombe, What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins

“photos of their gaping, rotting bodies stretching to the horizon remind me that our subjects name is synonymous with its own demise, for the word fish means both the animal adn the act of catching it”
― Jonathan Balcombe, What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins

“the word fish means both the animal and the act of catching it”
― Jonathan Balcombe, What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins

“In exchange for the male being the ultimate couch potato, the female never has to wonder where her mate is on a Saturday evening. It turns out that some males do indeed amount to little more than an appendage.”
― Jonathan Balcombe, What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins