"Male chimpanzees have an extraordinarily strong drive for……" — Frans de Waal
"Male chimpanzees have an extraordinarily strong drive for dominance. They're constantly jockeying for position."
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86 Quotes by Frans de Waal
Frans de Waal has 86 quotes on this site.
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If I were God, I'd work on the reach of empathy.
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Empathy as a complex emotion is different. It requires awareness of the other person's feelings and of one's own reactions.…
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As in a Russian doll, however, the outer layers always contain an inner core. Instead of evolution having replaced simpler…
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The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give…
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You need to indoctrinate empathy out of people in order to arrive at extreme capitalist positions.
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The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with…
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If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they…
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Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between…
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I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or…
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Robin Hood had it right.Humanity's deepest wish is to spread the wealth.
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We start out postulating sharp boundaries, such as between humans and apes, or between apes and monkeys, but are in…
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If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is…
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Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when…
— Russell Baker
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We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of…
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine - but to hang…
— Frank Zappa
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I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms that we can't conceive. And there could, of…
— Martin Rees
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If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described…
— Carl Sagan
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We evolved. We have only to look at the pouting face of a young chimpanzee to laugh at its reflections…
— Alison Jolly
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The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp…
— Unknown Author
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Some years ago I wrote a book called The House on Eccles Street. To write this book I had to…
— J M Coetzee
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...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others…
— Peter Singer
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Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler,…
— Peter Singer
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. Our common ancestor with the…
— Richard Dawkins
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Chimpanzees is hatin but I take it all in stride. Put her in a jungle with bananas on the side.
— Nicki Minaj
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