“Apes. The moon woke them-- round the world's navel revolved prayer wheels of steps.” — Dag Hammarskjöld Copy Share Image
Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes. — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes. — Gregory Keyes Copy Share Image
Planet of the Apes was a gigantic challenge, making the clothes work so people could do stunts and action in the clothes.… — Colleen Atwood Copy Share Image
Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“humans had to become the nicest of all apes before they could also evolve into the smartest.” — Stefan Klein Copy Share Image
I think the problem we have as apes is we're asking far bigger questions than we could possibly process. — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
With massive doses of eye-popping special effects I applaud the visual achievements in 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.' — Leonard Maltin Copy Share Image
The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels.… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We can learn a great deal from whales. It is the same lesson we can learn from our close genetic relatives, the… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
If 'Star Wars' wasn't enough to prepare me for a dark future, there was the 'Planet of the Apes' franchise, conveniently repeated… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
“As the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins puts the matter: “We are the only people who assume that we have ascended from apes. Everybody… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“(At least one theory suggests that while great apes and adult Humans are sentient, young Human children are not. I admit to… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
Father was afraid of laughter and joy. He was particularly afraid of ridicule. He was afraid that someone would say that humans… — Guus Kuijer Copy Share Image
Since Serengeti-scale savanna scenes are only one or two million years old, our earliest after-the-apes ancestors didn't move into this scene so… — William H. Calvin Copy Share Image
Of course, the plea for respect for nonhuman life goes far beyond the scientific delight of familiarity with our planet mates. The… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too;… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Humans became easy prey when they moved from the forest to the savanna, which deprived them of the option of climbing trees… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“There’s a quote I love from the anthropologist Robert Ardrey: “We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
Caesar [from the Rise of the Planet of the Apes] was brought up with human beings and because of the drug he… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
“The distinctiveness that we have so assiduously ascribed to ourselves as humans is, in reality, an accident of history. Imagine, for instance,… — Sue Savage-Rumbaugh Copy Share Image
When you're thinking about something that you don't understand, you have a terrible, uncomfortable feeling called confusion... Now, is the confusion's because… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
It is rather an unpleasant fact, that the ugliest and awkwardest of brute animals have the greatest resemblance to man: the monkey… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle; but man,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image