The suffix 'naut' comes from the Greek and Latin words for ships and sailing. Astronaut suggests 'a sailor in space.' Chimponaut suggests… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Who would you rather live with, a bunch of bonobos feeling good? Or chimpanzees eating each other's babies? Or humans waterboarding each… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“human beings are just an animal and they will evolve into another animal, and that animal will be cleverer and it will… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Most men probably wouldn't want to live the lives of bonobos. They're constantly clinging to their mothers' apron strings. They lack the… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
I am not a politician. I have never voted in my life and I am not going to vote - ever -… — OSHO Copy Share Image
I never wanted to give up. I thought I might have to. Especially at the beginning when chimpanzees had never seen a… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I've argued that many of what philosophers call moral sentiments can be seen in other species. In chimpanzees and other animals, you… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Some years ago I wrote a book called The House on Eccles Street. To write this book I had to think my… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“It is inconceivable that you would ever see two chimpanzees carrying a log together.”52 I was stunned. Chimps are arguably the second-smartest… — Jonathan Haidt 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
“How healing it was to be back at Gombe again, and by myself with the chimpanzees and their forest. I had left… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Chimpanzees are incredibly intelligent. They can learn more than 400 signs of American Sign Language. They have memories for spatial distribution, like… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Is it not possible that the chimpanzees are responding to some feeling like awe? A feeling generated by the mystery of water;… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
My impression is that a sense of rhythm, which has no analog in language, is unique and that its correlation with movement… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Chimpanzees, typically, kiss and embrace after fights. They first make eye contact from a distance to see the mood of the others.… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful… — Anonymous 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
But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms that we can't conceive. And there could, of course, be… — Anonymous 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
As our closest relatives, they (chimpanzees) tell us special things about what it means to be a primate and, ultimately, what it… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
“Like it or not, war is distinctively human. Apart from the raiding behavior of chimpanzees and the so-called wars prosecuted by certain… — David Livingstone Smith Copy Share Image
The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope,… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Chimpanzees are an evolutionary hair's-width from us… Now imagine a species on Earth, or anywhere else, as smart compared with humans as… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“I love chimpanzees. I love their stubbornness and their strength. I love the way they dig their fingers into life and never… — Vanessa Woods Copy Share Image
No wonder circus animals do what they do: They tortured them. And you know the only ones they can't control? It's the… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
The chimpanzees taught me a lot about nonverbal communication. The big difference between them and us is that they don't have spoken… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“human beings are actually more closely related to the two species of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes, the familiar chimp, and Pan paniscus, the… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“I thus concluded, with the same awe of Jane Goodall discovering the chimpanzees’ nimble use of tools to extract termites, it really… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have doubled our life span since… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
We don't exactly have the opposite interests to chimpanzees. However, things are not looking up for the chimpanzees, because we control their… — Jaan Tallinn Copy Share Image
We’ve got ninety-nine per cent the same genes as any other person. We’ve got ninety per cent the same as a chimpanzee.… — Caryl Churchill Copy Share Image
“Highly social animals like dogs and chimpanzees who live in small groups evolved to be more tolerant in subordinate roles. The fact… — Benjamin Kilham 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
The chimpanzees in the zoos do it, Some courageous kangaroos do it Let's do it, let's fall in love. I'm sure giraffes… — Cole Porter Copy Share Image
Rather than something like King Kong where I really went after studying gorillas in the wild and captivity. I based Caesar [… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
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