Chimpanzees Quotes

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I'd like to see animals removed from the entertainment business. Chimpanzees and apes won't perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep elephants in chains 90… — Bob Barker
The oldest form of the Choral Dance is the circle. Even the chimpanzees dance in a circle, and people of every continent still do it. — Curt Sachs
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 have but nothing to say to young girls. They're fine to look at, in the way I would look at a case filled with… — Harlan Ellison
I don't think I'm a celebrity. A chimpanzee could have done what I did. — Mark David Chapman
It is inconceivable that you would ever see two chimpanzees carrying a log together. — Michael Tomasello
What a dull universe it would be if everything in it conformed to our expectations, if it held nothing to surprise or baffle us or… — Steven Pinker
I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees. — Hans Rosling
Chimpanzees, more than any other living creature, have helped us to understand that there is no sharp line between humans and the rest of the… — Jane Goodall
Chimpanzees are an evolutionary hair's-width from us.... Now imagine a species on Earth, or anywhere else, as smart compared with humans as humans are compared… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
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
Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely. — Russell Banks
I've argued that many of what philosophers call moral sentiments can be seen in other species. In chimpanzees and other animals, you see examples of… — Frans de Waal
Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing nets, twenty dolphin-lengths… — Richard Dawkins
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
If you look into their [chimpanzees] eyes, you know you're looking into a thinking mind. They teach us that we are not the only beings… — Jane Goodall

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