An evolutionary biologist and a fundamentalist may see the same chimpanzee sitting in a cage, but in another important way, they do… — Peg O'Connor Copy Share Image
We are part of the world creation, and we ourselves create nothing. Our knowledge allows us to make use of all the… — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope,… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
My impression is that a sense of rhythm, which has no analog in language, is unique and that its correlation with movement… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Is it not possible that the chimpanzees are responding to some feeling like awe? A feeling generated by the mystery of water;… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
We think we know that chimpanzees are higher animals and earthworms are lower, we think we've always known what that means, and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I have but nothing to say to young girls. They're fine to look at, in the way I would look at a… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
I've argued that many of what philosophers call moral sentiments can be seen in other species. In chimpanzees and other animals, you… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Wild groups of chimpanzees attack their enemies like gangs. What they completely lack, precisely because of their strong territorial behavior, is a… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
It is inconceivable that you would ever see two chimpanzees carrying a log together. — Michael Tomasello Copy Share Image
One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals,… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
There are some circumstances, for example, where the newborn baby is severely disabled and where the parents think that it's better that… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Imagine a life-form whose brainpower is to ours as ours is to a chimpanzee’s. To such a species, our highest mental achievements… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
No wonder circus animals do what they do: They tortured them. And you know the only ones they can't control? It's the… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
...people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human beings are the best animal,… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Male chimpanzees have an extraordinarily strong drive for dominance. They're constantly jockeying for position. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Visualize yourself confronted with the task of killing, one after the other, a cabbage, a fly, a fish, a lizard, a guinea… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Consider a cow. A cow doesn't have the problem-solving skill of a chimpanzee, which has discovered how to get termites out of… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
