A chimpanzee could learn what I do physically, but it goes way beyond that. When you play, you play life. — Jaco Pastorius Copy Share Image
We are territorial, power-hungry and even more brutal than chimpanzees. — Frans de Waal 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
“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
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
There is thus a certain plausibility to Nietzsche's doctrine, though it is dynamite. He maintains in effect that the gulf separating Plato… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
Put another way, the chimpanzees' closest relative is not the gorilla but humans. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Children, behold the Chimpanzee: He sits on the ancestral tree From which we sprang in ages gone. — Oliver Herford Copy Share Image
If we start with chimpanzees, they differ from us with the composition of the DNA by only just over one percent. So,… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Chimpanzees will eat a little bit of meat. But, they never eat dairy products, and no other animal would do that. — Neal Barnard Copy Share Image
Law Number L: The average regulation has a life span one-fifth as long as a chimpanzee's and one-tenth as long as a… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
“Watching our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, is reading the first chapter of human-being’s adventures in this universe!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Another potentiality of our irrepressible juvenility is a capacity to maintain until the onset of senility an active creative interaction with our… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Its important to remember that we evolved. Now, I know thats a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common… — Louise Leakey 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
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
We evolved. We have only to look at the pouting face of a young chimpanzee to laugh at its reflections of ourselves.… — Alison Jolly Copy Share Image
If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine - but to hang all this… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“Even though I knew she never belonged to me, my heart didn't agree. The old man and the boy crouched as still… — Gail Gillespie-Fox Copy Share Image
To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I describe in 'Chimpanzee Politics' how the alpha male needs broad support to reach the top spot. He needs some close allies… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
