Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who…

Most people use their energy attempting to rearrange circumstances that trigger painful emotions. Changing external circumstances will not change your rigid patterns of emotional…

— Gary Zukav

In the field of aesthetic theory, humans are pattern-seeking creatures. That can be seen in terms of musical structures, patternmaking, even in terms of…

— Kehinde Wiley

I think that we're pattern-seeking animals, and what we like best is a story where everything fits together, where there's no puzzle pieces left…

— Noah Hawley

Primates stand at a turning point in the course of evolution. Primates are to the biologist what viruses are to the biochemist. They can…

— Alison Jolly

We are just another primate but a very confused, malleable one.

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Marriage probably originated as a straightforward food-for-sex deal among foraging primates. Compatibility was not a big issue, nor, of course, was there any tension…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

We're just a conceited naked ape, but in our minds we're some 'divine legend' and we see ourselves as some sort of god, thinking…

— Paul Watson

“As I sit, my back leaning against a damp, moss-covered tree trunk, my eyes sweeping the canopy above, my ears straining to catch the…

— Birute M.F. Galdikas

The only option is politeness-remember always that you are dealing with other primates.

— Paul Ford

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty, was successfully practised; honours, gifts, and immunities were offered and accepted as the price of an…

— Edward Gibbon

I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months…

— Christiaan Barnard

The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there, Many a monk and many a friar, Many a knight…

— Richard Harris Barham

No, nothing is sacred. And even if there were to be something called sacred, we mere primates wouldn't be able to decide which book…

— Christopher Hitchens

Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to…

— Frans de Waal

The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to…

— Robert Anton Wilson