sapient

If we're going to be sapient, we might as well get good at it.

But that world down there shows no evidence of sapient life.

After all, there were four sapient species on Earth for a long time.

They allow us to learn more about the only other sapient species ever found.

Thousands of sapient lives were being lost, and for what purpose?

It is possible that they were not sapient by human or Core standards.

"What then is your policy regarding worlds with another sapient species?"

If someone transferred to one of them, the creature had to be sapient.

Thus the sapient Jets had been discovered out of turn as it were.

When the food came, her sapient remarks were completely justified.

They simply did not organize themselves in conventional sapient fashion.

It was no just and sapient counsellor, in its last analysis.

Whether or not there were sapient beings on that planet, they would have to wait to find out.

He says these creatures aren't sapient except in groups of five or so.

Could these animals be sapient despite having no magnetic lenses?

There appeared to be no sapient life in the Amoeba.

"Maybe it's possible to be sapient and not know it," Gus said.

Usually this involved finding something to kick, as is the case with most sapient creatures.

Young Bands, like the youth of all sapient species, needed to be trained.

If he's sapient, we can't afford to keep him with us.

That includes the great majority of all sapient species.

A whole world, seven or eight sapient races, some near extinction, and a unique culture.

Known space seems to be packed with sapient species.

A world older than Earth might have had time to father more than one sapient species.

Don't you know what the local sapient species looks like?"