"Octopuses have hundreds of suckers, each one equipped……" — Frans de Waal
"Octopuses have hundreds of suckers, each one equipped with its own ganglion with thousands of neurons. These 'mini-brains' are interconnected, making for a widely distributed nervous system. That is why a severed octopus arm may crawl on its own and even pick up food."
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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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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
— Marcus Aurelius
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A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing…
— Clara Barton
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to…
— Vanna Bonta
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There's kind of a Zen aspect to bowling. The pins are either staying up or down before you even throw…
— Jeff Bridges
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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but…
— Barbara Bush
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Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.
— Lord Byron
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It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer.' They arm themselves from head…
— Sholom Aleichem
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One of the things that's interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually relax me. When…
— Nicolas Cage
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Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility…
— Benjamin Carson
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If you let a bully intimidate you, he's going to do it again. You've got to stand up to these…
— Unknown Author
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It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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