I think we give human beings too much credit. We're primates, you know. — Eric Andre Copy Share Image
One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.' — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists. — H. Allen Smith Copy Share Image
We are just another primate but a very confused, malleable one. — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
[A primate ban] would force us to abandon research that could lead to treatments for Alzheimer's, motor neurone disease, strokes and many… — Tipu Aziz Copy Share Image
I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Studies of reconciliation in primates have demonstrated that if the relationship value increases between two parties they are more willing to make… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them. — Keith Henson Copy Share Image
Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well. — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
There's actually a lot of evidence in primates and other animals that they return favors. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Everybody who has ever worked for a corporation knows that corporations conspire all the time. Politicians conspire all the time, pot-dealers conspire… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Marriage probably originated as a straightforward food-for-sex deal among foraging primates. Compatibility was not a big issue, nor, of course, was there… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
And I tell you one thing, if the primates that we came from, had know that someday politicians would come out of… — John Sheridan Copy Share Image
I have often noticed how primate groups in their entirety enter a similar mood. All of a sudden, all of them are… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
As a species, we tend to lie quite a bit - to ourselves and to each other. It's a primate thing. So,… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
Primates are the only animals on the face of the earth that can taste sweet and see color. We were designed by… — Joel Fuhrman Copy Share Image
Humans socialize in the largest groups of all primates because we are the only animals with brains large enough to handle the… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity.… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
We belong to that order of mammals, the primates, distinguished by its propensity for repeated single litters, intense parental care, long life-spans,… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Beware the beast man, for he is the devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed.… — Roddy McDowall Copy Share Image
We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans in our… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
A primatologist told me you can find love in the eyes of an orangutan. It's that old primate gleam that goes back… — Shawn Thompson Copy Share Image
I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson 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
Actually, the highest form of human organization is not realized in the democratic individual. It is realized in a dimension none of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“[H]umans live in a world where it's words and not deeds that have power, where the ultimate skill is mastery of language.… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
We're living in primate heaven. We're warm, dry, we're not hungry, we don't have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds.… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
When we are bad, we are worse than any primate that I know. And when we are good, we are actually better… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
Primates are super smart and organized just enough to devote their free time to being miserable to each other and stressing each… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
The primate laugh is given in playful contexts, and as such has a strong similarity to the human laugh. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
You know, there are just some things you never expect to face even on this job. A flying primate that shoots fire… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
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