"There's actually a lot of evidence in primates……" — Frans de Waal

There's actually a lot of evidence in primates and other animals that… - Frans de Waal

"There's actually a lot of evidence in primates and other animals that they return favors."

— Frans de Waal

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86 Quotes by Frans de Waal

Frans de Waal has 86 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If I were God, I'd work on the reach of empathy.
Empathy as a complex emotion is different. It requires awareness of the other person's feelings and of one's own reactions.…
As in a Russian doll, however, the outer layers always contain an inner core. Instead of evolution having replaced simpler…
The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give…
You need to indoctrinate empathy out of people in order to arrive at extreme capitalist positions.
The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with…
If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they…
Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between…
I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or…
Robin Hood had it right.Humanity's deepest wish is to spread the wealth.
We start out postulating sharp boundaries, such as between humans and apes, or between apes and monkeys, but are in…
If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is…

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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will… — Francis of Assisi
People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the… — David Attenborough
Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know… — David Attenborough
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual… — David Attenborough
I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how… — David Attenborough
I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I… — David Attenborough
If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in… — David Attenborough
Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware… — David Attenborough

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