Contrary to general belief, humans imitate apes more than the reverse. The sight of monkeys or apes induces an irresistible urge in… — Frans de Waal 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 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
It's not that humans and non-humans are identical... but the lack of understanding that led to the slave trade is the same… — Jane Goodall 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
To assert that the universe has a purpose implies the universe has intent. And intent implies a desired outcome. But who would… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them. — Keith Henson Copy Share Image
Primates are the only animals on the face of the earth that can taste sweet and see color. We were designed by… — Joel Fuhrman Copy Share Image
We're living in primate heaven. We're warm, dry, we're not hungry, we don't have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a… — Terence McKenna 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
We remain of the view that in many areas of research we are still reliant on primates to achieve our goals for… — Colin Blakemore Copy Share Image
“No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man.” — Henry Fairfield Osborn Copy Share Image
Everybody who has ever worked for a corporation knows that corporations conspire all the time. Politicians conspire all the time, pot-dealers conspire… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity.… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Beware the beast man, for he is the devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed.… — Roddy McDowall Copy Share Image
The black and white lemur, the one that relaxes on that branch, they actually have day care, like kindergartens; where all the… — Patricia Wright Copy Share Image
PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
However, what Article VI [of the U.S. Constitution] does not do, and was never intended to do, is deny me the right… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
The genetic stage of a gene pool can be identified by the personality characteristics of the local God. Jehovah of Genesis is… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“Getting even was the basis of many primate semantic confusions, such as"expropriating the expropriators," "an absolute crime demands an absolute penalty," "they… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
It must be stressed that there is nothing insulting about looking at people as animals. We are animals, after all. Homo sapiens… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
We are by far the most contradictory of all primates. An animal with this much internal conflict has never lived on this… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image