Animal Quote by Thomas Huxley

There is no fundamental difference between humans and the higher mammalsin their mental faculties

— Charles Darwin

Even in the important matter of cranial capacity, Men differ more widely from one another than they do from the Apes; while the lowest…

— Thomas Huxley

There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties...The difference in mind between man and the higher animals,…

— Charles Darwin

In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.

— Arthur Koestler

I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms. . . Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of superiority.

— Paul Watson

The pace at which science has progressed has been too fast for human behaviour to adapt to it. As I said we are still…

— Jean-Marie Lehn

The fact that the apes exist and that we can study them is extremely important and makes us reflect on ourselves and our human…

— Frans de Waal

The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with…

— Arthur Koestler

...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.

— Stephen Jay Gould

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Contrary to general belief, humans imitate apes more than the reverse

— Frans De Waal

We remain of the view that in many areas of research we are still reliant on primates to achieve our goals for improving human…

— Colin Blakemore