Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Contrary to general belief, humans imitate apes more than the reverse — Frans De Waal Copy Share Image
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
The first ape who became a man thus committed treason against his own kind. — Mikhail Turovsky Copy Share Image
He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Almost all theological thought is anthropocentric and I just cannot buy into the anthropocentric ideology. Basically we're a bunch of conceited apes. — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
I call the notion that we are nothing but killer apes the Beethoven fallacy. Beethoven was disorganized and messy, and yet his… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Telling me to relax or smile when I'm angry is like bringing a birthday cake into an ape sanctuary. You're just asking… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
Difference which exists between the lowest, so-called men, and the other higher races is greater than between the lowest men and the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
It's complicated. On the one hand we're killer apes, and on the other hand we have this metaphysical longing. — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
“(At least one theory suggests that while great apes and adult Humans are sentient, young Human children are not. I admit to… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
We can learn a great deal from whales. It is the same lesson we can learn from our close genetic relatives, the… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
“As the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins puts the matter: “We are the only people who assume that we have ascended from apes. Everybody… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Of course, the plea for respect for nonhuman life goes far beyond the scientific delight of familiarity with our planet mates. The… — Lynn Margulis 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
Father was afraid of laughter and joy. He was particularly afraid of ridicule. He was afraid that someone would say that humans… — Guus Kuijer Copy Share Image
“We humans, as species, are interested in communication with extraterrestrial intelligence. Would not a good beginning be improved communication with terrestral intelligence,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Darwin may have been quite correct in his theory that man descended from the apes of the forest, but surely woman rose… — Margot Datz Copy Share Image
The idea that humans could be related to ape-like ancestors and the rest of creation was considered subversive. If man was just… — James Moore Copy Share Image
I don't hold it against Dizzy [Gillespie], you know, but if a guy wants to play a certain way, you work towards… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
How I hate the man who talks about the 'brute creation', with an ugly emphasis on Brute. Only Christians are capable of… — W.N.P. Barbellion Copy Share Image
The Jewish sages also tell us that God dances when His children defeat Him in argument, when they stand on their feet… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights. Since I was born,… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
Born originals, how comes it to pass that we die copies? That meddling ape imitation, as soon as we come to years… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
“Because that DNA is the whole reason we exist, still preserved long after most of humanity ascended into super-intelligent human-robot hybrids. Humans… — Samuel Peralta Copy Share Image
“Cast in the mold of humanity, they were distinctly not men. They were winged and of heroic proportions; not a branch on… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
I hadn't really done a comedy other than The Ape since Freaks and Geeks. — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed. — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes? — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
Snicker on hearing his name: 'the gentleman who thinks we are descended from the apes.' — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
![“I don't hold it against Dizzy [Gillespie], you know, but if a guy wants to play a certain way, you work towards that. If he stops - he's full of crap, you know. I mean, I wouldn't do it, for no money, or for no place in the white man's world. Not just to make money, because then you don't have…” quote by Miles Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aed/miles-davis-1842_apes_i-don-t-hold-it-against-dizzy-gillespie_1460081.jpg)
