Actual Quote by Frans de Waal

The goal of evolution is self - conquest

— Elbert Hubbard

To me, the thing that sets us apart from so many other animal species is our ability to ask questions, investigate, gather information, come…

— Karyn Kusama

We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“This is the basic lesson of evolutionary psychology: a need shaped in the wild continues to be felt subjectively even if it is no…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to…

— Steven Spielberg

What is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls?

— Terry Tempest Williams

“...evolution propels itself by an inclination toward its next probable achievement." ("Desire")”

— William S. Wilson

Many a scientist has patiently designed experiments for the purpose of substantiating his belief that animal operations are motivated by no purposes. He has…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“almost all biologists agreed that no creature could ever evolve the ability to help its species at the expense of itself. Only when the…

— Matt Ridley

I have come to recognize evolution not only as an active process that I am experiencing at the time, but as something I can…

— Jonas Salk

“What is the bottom line for the animal/human hierarchy? I think it is at the animate/inanimate line, and Carol Adams and others are close…

— Anonymous

“Our treatment of animals and our attitude toward them are crucial not only to any pretensions we have to ethical behavior but the humankind's…

— Joy Williams