Chimpanzees Quotes

79 quotes by 49 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
We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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
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
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
...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have a rich social… — Peter Singer
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
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. Our common ancestor with the chimpanzees and gorillas is much… — Richard Dawkins
Chimpanzees is hatin but I take it all in stride. Put her in a jungle with bananas on the side. — Nicki Minaj
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
Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned… — Jane Goodall
The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with… — Jane Goodall
But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities… — Jane Goodall
If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we… — Frans de Waal
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
We are part of the world creation, and we ourselves create nothing. Our knowledge allows us to make use of all the forces already in… — Arshile Gorky

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