“You can't teach calculus to a chimpanzee. So just share your banana.” — John Rachel Copy Share Image
“Even though I knew she never belonged to me, my heart didn't agree.” — Gail Gillespie-Fox Copy Share Image
The best relationship you can have with a chimpanzee is total mutual trust. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm a celebrity. A chimpanzee could have done what I did. — Mark David Chapman Copy Share Image
Some folks seem to have descended from the chimpanzee much later than others. — Kin Hubbard Copy Share Image
“A chimpanzee can’t win an argument with a Homo sapiens, but the ape can rip the man apart like a rag doll.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“We are the storytelling chimpanzee, and we appreciate the meta-pattern involved in that.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I am blessed with the energy of a chimpanzee. There is nothing I can't get up for and give it a hundred… — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder? — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Children, behold the Chimpanzee: He sits on the ancestral tree From which we sprang in ages gone. — Oliver Herford Copy Share Image
One cannot watch chimpanzee infants for long without realizing that they have the same emotional need for affection and reassurance as human… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“Went to the Zoo, I said to Him- Something about that chimpanzee over there reminds me of you.” — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
We evolved. We have only to look at the pouting face of a young chimpanzee to laugh at its reflections of ourselves.… — Alison Jolly Copy Share Image
The seed for my novel 'Half Brother' was planted in my mind over twenty years ago, but didn't germinate until late 2007… — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
“I guess you could say I’ve got a monkey on my back. A monkey named Darwin.” He shrugged off the trench coat… — Phillip Andrew Bennett Low Copy Share Image
When I was 7 and went to the zoo with my second-grade class, I saw chimpanzee eyes for the first time -… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a… — Robert Trivers Copy Share Image
Humans cannot produce viable offspring with our closest animal cousin: the chimpanzee. We cannot impregnate a chimp. So you know what that… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then]… — Adriaan Kortlandt Copy Share Image
Considering the very close genetic relationship that has been established by comparison of biochemical properties of blood proteins, protein structure and DNA,… — Elaine Morgan Copy Share Image
It is not only visitors to the zoo who are fascinated but uneasy in the presence of chimpanzees; the same is true… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms we can't conceive. Just as a chimpanzee can't understand quantum… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“Let's put a chimpanzee in a tiny cage fronted by concrete bars. The animal would go berserk, throw itself against the walls,… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Consider a cow. A cow doesn't have the problem-solving skill of a chimpanzee, which has discovered how to get termites out of… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
“Human female choosiness is also why we are very different from the common ancestor we shared with our chimpanzee cousins, while the… — Jordan B. Peterson Copy Share Image
I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
My own diagnosis of my problem is a simpler one. It's that I share 50 per cent of my genome with a… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“Most people have difficulty thinking of themselves as just another animal. They refuse to face the fact that 96% of what can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The problem with this game of special characteristics is that non-humans can never win. When we determine that parrots have the conceptual… — Francione, Gary L Copy Share Image
A chimpanzee who is really gearing up for a fight doesn't waste time with gestures but just goes ahead and attacks. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It is hardly an exaggeration to say that a chimpanzee kept in solitude is not a real chimpanzee at all. — Wolfgang Kohler Copy Share Image
If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals,… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
A chimpanzee could learn what I do physically, but it goes way beyond that. When you play, you play life. — Jaco Pastorius Copy Share Image
“In time the earth will be inhabited by almost god-like beings who shall analyze and discuss the remnants of humanity as we… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
The chimpanzee study was - well, it's still going on, and I think it's taught us perhaps more than anything else to… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“Nature's great mistake was to have been unable to confine herself to one "kingdom": juxtaposed with the vegetable, everything else seems inopportune,… — E.M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyweight champion of the world.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image