Branches Quote by Willard Van Orman Quine

If anyone wants to know what elephants are like, they are like people only more so.

— Pierre Corneille

“An ant can't define shape of an elephant solely from its' point of view. They have to unify all views. It's a way for…

— Toba Beta

Embryology reveals surprising similarities between early embryos of seemingly quite different animals. And it also shows that some structures that may look very different…

— Alice Roberts

Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.

— Frans de Waal

[Elephants] are less agile and physically less adaptable than ourselves - Nature having developed their bodies in one direction and their brains in another,…

— Beryl Markham

“It has already been stated that various parts in the same individual, which are exactly alike during an early embryonic period, become widely different…

— Charles Darwin

One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to…

— Frans de Waal

Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.

— Gloria Steinem

“Elephant, beyond the fact that their size and conformation are aesthetically more suited to the treading of this earth than our angular informity, have…

— Beryl Markham

A lot of people get a monkey off their back in order to make room for an elephant.

— Superman

Whatever part of the animal fabric whatever series of muscles, whatever viscera might be selected for comparison the result would be the same the…

— Thomas Huxley