"We need to separate the process of evolution……" — Frans de Waal
"We need to separate the process of evolution - which is, indeed, a self-serving process - and the actual motivations of animals."
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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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The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in…
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Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat,…
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The Canadian run can be no different, at least in terms of actual running.
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Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
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I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.
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Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their…
— Jeff Bezos
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It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am.…
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I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was…
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The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what…
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Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations…
— William J. Brennan
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You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot…
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