Chimpanzees Quotes

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What is the good of words if they aren't important enough to quarrel over? Why do we choose one word more than another if there… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Molecular evidense suggests that our common ancestor with the chimpanzees lived, in Africa, between 5 and 7 million years ago, say half a million generations… — Richard Dawkins
He couldn't tell the difference between one politician and another. They were all formlessly enthusiastic chimpanzees to him. — Kurt Vonnegut
One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun. — Jane Goodall
We think we know that chimpanzees are higher animals and earthworms are lower, we think we've always known what that means, and we think evolution… — Richard Dawkins
The gods thatï»¿ we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being… — Christopher Hitchens
Iâ€™ll give you a theory: Manâ€™s closest relative is not the chimpanzee, as the TV people believe, but is, in fact, the dog. — Garth Stein
Imagine a life-form whose brainpower is to ours as ours is to a chimpanzeeâ€™s. To such a species, our highest mental achievements would be trivial.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
A chimpanzee could learn what I do physically, but it goes way beyond that. When you play, you play life. — Jaco Pastorius
Consider a cow. A cow doesn't have the problem-solving skill of a chimpanzee, which has discovered how to get termites out of the ground by… — Martin Gardner
Some folks seem to have descended from the chimpanzee much later than others. — Kin Hubbard
Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social. — Clay Shirky
There are beautiful examples of art done by chimpanzees in human care. — Frans de Waal
Chimpanzees have very strong preferences and aversions that are completely personality-linked. The people who are unsuccessful in working with chimpanzees are those who take this… — Frans de Waal
Through my work with PETA, I have learned a great deal about chimpanzee behavior and the plight of chimpanzees imprisoned in laboratories. — Woody Harrelson
I miss the early days; I do. I was so lucky. I basically had it to myself, learning about these chimpanzees. Nobody knew anything about… — Jane Goodall
Animals are everywhere. Some are more romantic, like tigers and elephants and chimpanzees, and some are less romantic, like earthworms, but they are just as… — Isabella Rossellini
Yeah, you definitely come from a long line of brave chimpanzees. — Aruho Marvin
I am not a politician. I have never voted in my life and I am not going to vote - ever - because what is… — OSHO

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