Chimpanzees Quote by Hans Rosling

Chimpanzees are an evolutionary hair's-width from us.... Now imagine a species on Earth, or anywhere else, as smart compared with humans as humans are…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

When it comes to social interaction, the chimpanzees appear to be just as intelligent as we are.

— Frans de Waal

“What are the chances that this first and only smart species in the history of life on Earth has enough smarts to completely figure…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.

— Ted Turner

“Humans nowadays completely dominate the planet not because the individual human is far smarter and more nimble-fingered than the individual chimp or wolf, but…

— Yuval Noah Harari

In Antarctica you get to know people so well that in comparison you do not seem to know the people in civilization at all.

— Apsley Cherry-Garrard

“Psychologists at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, found that the better educated and wealthier a nation is, the less likely its…

— Helen Russell

“If a surviving relict population of very early hominins were to be discovered, we’d be more likely to send them to zoos than boarding…

— Daniel E. Lieberman

The more I see of the Swedes, the more I am convinced that there is no kinder, simpler, and honester people in the world.

— Bayard Taylor

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

— Jane Goodall

Bonobos may have a brain that's a third the size of ours, but they're remarkably intelligent.

— Claudine Andre

“Certainly on this planet it is not apparent that there are beings more intelligent than humans, although a case can be made for dolphins…

— Carl Sagan