The great thing about this jungle of ours is that anyone of you could grow up to be Lord of the apes. — Gary Larson Copy Share Image
A mere ape in our world may be a scholar in its own, and the low life of any beast may be… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes. — Al Roker Copy Share Image
Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes),Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes;Who loving novels, full of affectation,Receive the… — Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas Copy Share Image
Who are we? That is the big question. And essentially we are just an upright, walking, big brained, super intelligent ape. — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
Barry Kent's father looks like a big ape and has got more hair on the back of his hands than my father… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
I'm in the role of helping these apes negotiate the human role. I'm just a temporary intermediary in what I think will… — Sue Savage-Rumbaugh Copy Share Image
I don't understand why women get upset when you compare them to one of the monkeys from Planet of the Apes, even… — David James Copy Share Image
When I went to high school in Australia, I was exposed to textbooks that outlined evolutionary ideas - such as ape-like creatures… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
As the body rolled to the ground Tarzan of the Apes placed his foot upon the neck of his lifelong enemy and,… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
None of the three great apes is considered ancestral to modern man, Homo sapiens, but they remain the only other type of… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls,… — Ian Caldwell Copy Share Image
ASTONISHING, said Death. REALLY ASTONISHING. LET ME PUT FORWARD ANOTHER SUGGESTION: THAT YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THAN A LUCKY SPECIES OF APE… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I've read that male dolphins try to have sex with humans, and female apes solicit sex from humans. What is wrong with… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
We can no longer communicate with the apes by direct language, nor can we understand, without special study, their modes of communication… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Yet man does recognise himself [as an animal]. But I ask you and the whole world for a generic differentia between man… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
Then, of course, through the umbilical link we all tumble backwards down the spiralling DNA staircase to one common ancestor in Africa,… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“All beings so far have created something beyond themselves. Do you want to be the ebb of that great tide, and revert… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Do you take me for a sponge, my lord? hamlet: Ay, sir; that soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities.… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
I can't imagine childhood without 'Planet of the Apes.' I was nine or ten when the first one came out. — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
When the space shuttle gets back from its last mission, wouldn't it be hilarious if we were all dressed like apes — Author Name Copy Share Image
Dark pictures, thrones, the stones that pilgrims kiss Poems that take a thousand years to die But ape the immortality of this… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
People still don't get how astounding Darwinism is. People think what shocked everybody was that Charles Darwin seemed to be saying we… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Cheaters never prosper, we tell ourselves. But the ape in us knows it's not true. Clumsy, untutored, cheats never prosper. They are… — Mark Rowlands Copy Share Image
Whatever part of the animal fabric whatever series of muscles, whatever viscera might be selected for comparison the result would be the… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Love lost is a special kind of failure, I think. It's a reminder that some consummations, no matter how devoutly wished for,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Darwin may have been quite correct in his theory that man descended from the apes of the forest, but surely woman rose… — Margot Datz Copy Share Image
Football is a game for trained apes. That, in fact, is what most of the players are -- retarded gorillas wearing helmets… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“We humans, as species, are interested in communication with extraterrestrial intelligence. Would not a good beginning be improved communication with terrestral intelligence,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“As far as I’m concerned they’re no better than the apes. That’s not right, though. They’re worse. At least the apes have… — Dennis Freeman Copy Share Image