Chimpanzee Quotes

36 quotes by 30 authors

Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie… — Russell Baker
If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine - but to hang all this desperate sociology on… — Frank Zappa
I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms that we can't conceive. And there could, of course, be forms of intelligence… — Martin Rees
We evolved. We have only to look at the pouting face of a young chimpanzee to laugh at its reflections of ourselves. We know that… — Alison Jolly
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
Some years ago I wrote a book called The House on Eccles Street. To write this book I had to think my way into the… — J M Coetzee
Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and the rest -… — Peter Singer
Weâ€™ve got ninety-nine per cent the same genes as any other person. Weâ€™ve got ninety per cent the same as a chimpanzee. Weâ€™ve got thirty… — Caryl Churchill
I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if weâ€™d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only laterâ€”or not at all. The discussion… — Frans de Waal
It is not only visitors to the zoo who are fascinated but uneasy in the presence of chimpanzees; the same is true of scientists. The… — Frans de Waal
Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the… — Adriaan Kortlandt
I don't think I'm a celebrity. A chimpanzee could have done what I did. — Mark David Chapman
One cannot watch chimpanzee infants for long without realizing that they have the same emotional need for affection and reassurance as human children. — Jane Goodall
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
Visualize yourself confronted with the task of killing, one after the other, a cabbage, a fly, a fish, a lizard, a guinea pig, a cat,… — Konrad Lorenz
There are some circumstances, for example, where the newborn baby is severely disabled and where the parents think that it's better that child should not… — Peter Singer
I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee. — Pat Conroy
I think if you're good and you can persuade people you're going to be able to do that role and ultimately the audience buys it,… — Alexander Siddig
I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms we can't conceive. Just as a chimpanzee can't understand quantum theory, it could… — Martin Rees
I don't like explosions. I don't mind progress. But digital photography has made every man, woman, child and chimpanzee a photographer of sorts and consequently… — Elliott Erwitt

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