Apes Quote by Dale Jamieson

“Humans nowadays completely dominate the planet not because the individual human is far smarter and more nimble-fingered than the individual chimp or wolf, but…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“And with our work,” John continued, “we are carving out a new social order and the next step in the human story”—i.e., the latest…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down -- toppling the…

— Carl Sagan

Humans socialize in the largest groups of all primates because we are the only animals with brains large enough to handle the complexities of…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Primates are super smart and organized just enough to devote their free time to being miserable to each other and stressing each other out.

— Robert Sapolsky

Didn't we learn our lesson from Planet of the Apes?

— Zach Braff

What human beings seek to learn from nature is how to use it to dominate wholly both it and human beings. Nothing else counts.

— Theodor Adorno

The problem is that the Enlightenment dream may make too many demands on poor African apes like us. We may just not be up…

— Dale Jamieson

I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms. . . Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of superiority.

— Paul Watson

But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our…

— Jane Goodall

We are territorial, power-hungry and even more brutal than chimpanzees.

— Frans de Waal

We remain of the view that in many areas of research we are still reliant on primates to achieve our goals for improving human…

— Colin Blakemore