When you think of intelligence, don't think of a college professor; think of human beings as opposed to chimpanzees. If you don't… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Chimpanzees have very strong preferences and aversions that are completely personality-linked. The people who are unsuccessful in working with chimpanzees are those… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
I think if you're good and you can persuade people you're going to be able to do that role and ultimately the… — Alexander Siddig Copy Share Image
We’ve got ninety-nine per cent the same genes as any other person. We’ve got ninety per cent the same as a chimpanzee.… — Caryl Churchill Copy Share Image
“Highly social animals like dogs and chimpanzees who live in small groups evolved to be more tolerant in subordinate roles. The fact… — Benjamin Kilham Copy Share Image
We don't exactly have the opposite interests to chimpanzees. However, things are not looking up for the chimpanzees, because we control their… — Jaan Tallinn Copy Share Image
The chimpanzees in the zoos do it, Some courageous kangaroos do it Let's do it, let's fall in love. I'm sure giraffes… — Cole Porter 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
Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was… — Russell Baker 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
My own diagnosis of my problem is a simpler one. It's that I share 50 per cent of my genome with a… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“Mark a hen’s comb with an oddly colored spot, or tie it so it hangs in a peculiar direction, and her former… — David Livingstone Smith Copy Share Image
“The point of making children sleep alone, according to Western psychologists, is to make them “self-soothing,” but that clearly runs contrary to… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
I do not want to discuss evolution in such depth, however, only touch on it from my own perspective: from the moment… — Jane Goodall 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
“The buzzing was like the eager purr of a muscle car that had just been started, but left in neutral. That was… — Brandon Sanderson 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
Rather than something like King Kong where I really went after studying gorillas in the wild and captivity. I based Caesar [… — Andy Serkis 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
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
As our closest relatives, they (chimpanzees) tell us special things about what it means to be a primate and, ultimately, what it… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
“Like it or not, war is distinctively human. Apart from the raiding behavior of chimpanzees and the so-called wars prosecuted by certain… — David Livingstone Smith Copy Share Image
Chimpanzees are an evolutionary hair's-width from us… Now imagine a species on Earth, or anywhere else, as smart compared with humans as… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The chimpanzees taught me a lot about nonverbal communication. The big difference between them and us is that they don't have spoken… — Jane Goodall 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
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
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
“human beings are actually more closely related to the two species of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes, the familiar chimp, and Pan paniscus, the… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“I thus concluded, with the same awe of Jane Goodall discovering the chimpanzees’ nimble use of tools to extract termites, it really… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
If you look into their [chimpanzees] eyes, you know you're looking into a thinking mind. They teach us that we are not… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. Our common ancestor with the chimpanzees and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The fact that all our ape cousins - chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans - can acquire signs - is powerful evidence that our… — Roger Fouts 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
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
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
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
Chimpanzees are incredibly intelligent. They can learn more than 400 signs of American Sign Language. They have memories for spatial distribution, like… — Jane Goodall 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
And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image