Best Frans de Waal Quotations
- There has been so much underestimating of animal cognition that to perhaps overestimate it, as I probably do, is probably a healthy reaction. Animal
- Scientists are supposed to study animals in a totally objective fashion, similar to the way we inspect a rock or measure the circumference of a… Animal
- Closeness to animals creates the desire to understand them, and not just a little piece of them, but the whole animal. It makes us wonder… Animal
- One thing bothered me as a student. In the 1960s, human behavior was totally off limits for the biologist. There was animal behavior, then there… Animal
- The intuitive connection children feel with animals can be a tremendous source of joy. The unconditional love received from pets, and the lack of artifice… Animals
- Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test them in ways that work fine with humans but not so… Animals
- Deep down, creationists realize they will never win factual arguments with science. This is why they have construed their own science-like universe, known as Intelligent… Argument
- The whole reason people fill their homes with furry carnivores and not with, say, iguanas and turtles, is because mammals offer something no reptile ever… Affection
- I was too restless as a boy to sit through an entire mass. It was akin to aversion training. I looked at it like a… Akin
- Religion looms as large as an elephant in the United States, to the point that being nonreligious is about the biggest handicap a politician running… Bigger
- Contrary to general belief, humans imitate apes more than the reverse Apes