Apes Quote by Carl Sagan

“Cast in the mold of humanity, they were distinctly not men. They were winged and of heroic proportions; not a branch on the mysterious…

— Robert E. Howard

The chimpanzee study was - well, it's still going on, and I think it's taught us perhaps more than anything else to be a…

— Jane Goodall

Even with years of historical research, the more humans try to define themself, the more there end up getting drown in their own confussion.…

— Igwe Daniel Kelechi

Human beings are what I think of as "biomythic" animals: we're controlled largely by the stories we tell. When we get the story wrong,…

— Sam Keen

“The First Human (Sonnet 2632) Apes have lords and ladies, I don't. Apes have kings and queens, I don't. My time is born of…

— Abhijit Naskar

I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms. . . Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of superiority.

— Paul Watson

What is unique about humans is their individuality.

— Leroy Hood

“As the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins puts the matter: “We are the only people who assume that we have ascended from apes. Everybody else takes…

— Ray Kurzweil

The uniqueness of humans has been claimed on many grounds, but most often because of our tool-making, culture, language, reason and morality. We have…

— Carl Sagan

But then, after all, we are all alike, for we are all derived from the monkey.

— Albert Einstein

“The distinctiveness that we have so assiduously ascribed to ourselves as humans is, in reality, an accident of history. Imagine, for instance, how much…

— Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

“We humans have a dual nature—we are selfish primates who long to be a part of something larger and nobler than ourselves.”

— Jonathan Haidt