Chimp Quotes

22 quotes by 17 authors

Sometimes you think they must have come out of the chimp cages at the Bronx zoo. — Gerry Cheevers
If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as 'human rights'? How smart… — Carl Sagan
Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as the average human. — Jared Diamond
I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before… — Christiaan Barnard
The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a malformed, irrelevant oddity,… — Robert Trivers
I can teach a chimp how to make linguini and clams. Â I can't teach a chimp to dream about it and think about how… — Mario Batali
This is how diseases are usually spread. Someone spits on a guy, somebody has sex with a chimp. Next thing you know . . .… — CM Punk
I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands. — Amy Hempel
I went to the zoo one day and saw a chimp playing with a beat-up acoustic guitar in a way I had never seen before.… — Eddie Van Halen
I had a foretaste of another, larger kind of knowledge: one I believe human beings will be able to access in ever larger numbers in… — Eben Alexander
How smart does a chimp have to be before killing him constitutes murder? — Carl Sagan
My agent sent me the script and I loved it. I wondered how they would turn me into a chimp. My agent said it would… — Kim Hunter
I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker - yet I had just watched… — Jane Goodall
When I was doing Dobie Gillis, I got blasted off to the moon with a chimp in a rocket, and I landed on a deserted… — Bob Denver
When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it's just like a human baby. We have a responsibility… — Jane Goodall
I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands. In the course of the experiment, that chimp had a baby. Imagine how her… — Amy Hempel
She gave me the jabs and said I was covered for every worst-case scenario, including being bitten by a dirty chimp. I told her this… — Karl Pilkington
When I was 7 and went to the zoo with my second-grade class, I saw chimpanzee eyes for the first time - the eyes of… — Octavia E. Butler
There are certain characteristics that define a good chimp mother. She is patient, she is protective but she is not over-protective - that is really… — Jane Goodall
Chimps can do all sorts of things we thought that only we could do - like tool-making and abstraction and generalisation. They can learn a… — Jane Goodall

Who Wrote These Chimp Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 22 Chimp Quotes as follows: