Men argue, nature acts. -Voltaire
When a child learns to walk and falls down 50 times, he never thinks to himself: 'Maybe this isn't for me ?'. Where did you learn to quit ?
On Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on, whilst 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. -HHGTTG