The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
No, nothing is sacred. And even if there were to be something called sacred, we mere primates wouldn't be able to decide… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there, Many a monk and many a friar, Many… — Richard Harris Barham Copy Share Image
I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for… — Christiaan Barnard Copy Share Image
Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty, was successfully practised; honours, gifts, and immunities were offered and accepted as the price… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The only option is politeness-remember always that you are dealing with other primates. — Paul Ford Copy Share Image
“As I sit, my back leaning against a damp, moss-covered tree trunk, my eyes sweeping the canopy above, my ears straining to… — Birute M.F. Galdikas Copy Share Image
We're just a conceited naked ape, but in our minds we're some 'divine legend' and we see ourselves as some sort of… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Marriage probably originated as a straightforward food-for-sex deal among foraging primates. Compatibility was not a big issue, nor, of course, was there… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
We are just another primate but a very confused, malleable one. — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Primates stand at a turning point in the course of evolution. Primates are to the biologist what viruses are to the biochemist.… — Alison Jolly Copy Share Image
I am a vegetarian because I realized that even little chickens suffer pain and fear, experience a range of feelings and emotions,… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I actually taught perceptual psychology at N.Y.U. when I was younger. I was interested in the aesthetic impulse in lower primates. But… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
We belong to that order of mammals, the primates, distinguished by its propensity for repeated single litters, intense parental care, long life-spans,… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
And I tell you one thing, if the primates that we came from, had know that someday politicians would come out of… — John Sheridan Copy Share Image
There's actually a lot of evidence in primates and other animals that they return favors. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“I’d been traveling in Asia long enough to know that monkeys there are nothing like their trombone-playing, tambourine-banging cousins I’d seen on… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists. — H. Allen Smith Copy Share Image
The primate laugh is given in playful contexts, and as such has a strong similarity to the human laugh. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Humans socialize in the largest groups of all primates because we are the only animals with brains large enough to handle the… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Most animals, including most domesticated primates (humans) show truly staggering ability to 'ignore' certain kinds of information - that which does not… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds.… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
Actually, the highest form of human organization is not realized in the democratic individual. It is realized in a dimension none of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
