Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. He… — George Gaylord Simpson 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
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
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
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
Civilisation is only a pretense. In crisis we have become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and instead… — Orson Scott Card 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
Civilization is the mastery of violence, the triumph, constantly challenged, over the aggressive nature of the primate. For primates we have been… — Muriel Barbery 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 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
“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
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
A primatologist told me you can find love in the eyes of an orangutan. It's that old primate gleam that goes back… — Shawn Thompson Copy Share Image
I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats,… — Lewis Thomas 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
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
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
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
As a species, we tend to lie quite a bit - to ourselves and to each other. It's a primate thing. So,… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I have often noticed how primate groups in their entirety enter a similar mood. All of a sudden, all of them are… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
None of the three great apes is considered ancestral to modern man, Homo sapiens, but they remain the only other type of… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson 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
We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans in our… — Murray Bookchin 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
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
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