We are bipedal apes, and it should not be surprising to see that fact reflected in the way our ancestors lived. — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration [for Lolita] was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
What right do we have to claim, as some might, that human beings are the only inhabitants of our planet blessed with… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
“But once an original book has been written-and no more than one or two appear in a century-men of letters imitate it,… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is criminal lunacy… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
Since Serengeti-scale savanna scenes are only one or two million years old, our earliest after-the-apes ancestors didn't move into this scene so… — William H. Calvin 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
It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
'Ape House' is an ambitious novel in several ways, for which it is to be admired, and it is certainly an easy… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
The fact that the apes exist and that we can study them is extremely important and makes us reflect on ourselves and… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
I'm a big, big movie fan. I watch 'The Ten Commandments' and the original 'Planet of the Apes' every night. — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is… — Brandon Boyd 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
So they, who climb to wealth, forget The friends in darker fortunes tried. I copied them--but I regret That I should ape… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our… — Richard Leakey 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
We're just a conceited, naked ape. But in our minds we're some sort of "divine legend," and we see ourselves as some… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
People sometimes try to score debating points by saying, Evolution is only a theory. That is correct, but it's important to understand… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Being both more systematically brutal than chimps and more empathetic than bonobos, we are by far the most bipolar ape. Our societies… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
It's that we're experiencing emotion through photo-real apes, and that's really holding a mirror up to who we are. It's interesting, because… — Matt Reeves Copy Share Image
