"The primate laugh is given in playful contexts,……" — Frans de Waal
"The primate laugh is given in playful contexts, and as such has a strong similarity to the human laugh."
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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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More Contexts Quotes
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I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a loved one, the…
— Tori Amos
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The basic thesis of gestalt theory might be formulated thus: there are contexts in which what is happening in the…
— Max Wertheimer
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As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic…
— William Thurston
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I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and…
— Barbara Kruger
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The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish…
— George W. S. Trow
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It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates…
— Mikhail Bakhtin
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The word in language is half someone else’s… it exists in other people’s mouths, in other people’s contexts, serving other…
— Mikhail Bakhtin
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The real hallmark of learning is transferring what you’ve learned into new contexts.
— Eric Mazur
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise,…
— Alan Kay
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We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.
— Jay Maisel
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Thinking about how disturbingly herdlike people become in so many different contexts—mimetic theory forces you to think about that, which…
— Peter Thiel
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I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.
— Andrew Sullivan
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