"He who understands baboons would do more towards……" — Charles Darwin
"He who understands baboons would do more towards metaphysics than Locke."
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Charles Darwin
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288 Quotes by Charles Darwin
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an…
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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the…
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If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their…
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So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special…
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The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their…
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It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in…
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It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain…
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Jealousy was plainly exhibited when I fondled a large doll, and when I weighed his infant sister, he being then…
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May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are…
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The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that…
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Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one…
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More Baboons Quotes
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The President is no more than a well-meaning baboon. I went to the White House directly after tea, where I…
— George B. McClellan
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as…
— Aldous Huxley
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It had always been a notion of mine that sanity is like a clearing in the jungle where the humans…
— Wilfrid
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If you live in a baboon troop in the Serengeti, you only have to work three hours a day for…
— Robert M. Sapolsky
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they…
— T. Boone Pickens
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What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be…
— Carl Sagan
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Medicine is magical and magical is art, the boy in the bubble, and the baby with the baboon heart.
— Paul Simon
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Whistling tunes we're kissing baboons in the jungle.
— Peter Gabriel
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I have family in Tanzania. I can't even explain the joy of riding through the Tanzania national park and seeing…
— Emanuel Cleaver
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If the press really thinks Obama is Lincoln, they ought to treat him like they treated Bush, 'cause that's how…
— Ann Coulter
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I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I’ll make Goyle do lines, it’ll kill him, he hates writing,” said Ron happily. He lowered his voice to Goyle’s…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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