Chimpanzees Quotes - Page 5

• I don't like explosions. I don't mind progress. But digital photography has made every man, woman, child and chimpanzee a photographer of sorts and consequently has numbed down the general quality of photographs.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Children, Men

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• And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees - it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not.

  Jane Goodall

  Noble, Way, Sophisticated

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• My own diagnosis of my problem is a simpler one. It's that I share 50 per cent of my genome with a banana and 98 per cent with a chimpanzee. Banana's don't do psychological consistency. And the tiny part of us that's different - the special Homo sapiens bit - is faulty. It doesn't work. Sorry about that.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Sorry, Consistency, Special

  Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• Jane Goodall is my idol and someone I have always looked up to for the amazing work she has done with chimpanzees. She has transcended animal welfare as the voice for the voiceless and has changed many people's views about how they think and treat not only chimps but all of the amazing animals we share this planet with.

  Katie Cleary

  Animal, Thinking, Views

  "Katie Cleary, President and Founder of Peace 4 Animals: Get Proactive!". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We are unique. Chimpanzees are unique. Dogs are unique. But we humans are just not as different as we used to think.

  Jane Goodall

  Dog, Unique, Thinking

  "Jane Goodall Works To Help Humans, Too". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. February 12, 2010.

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• Other people have talked about chimpanzees being a window into the past, which I suppose is true, in a way.

  Jane Goodall

  Past, People, Way

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.

  Jane Goodall

  Dream, Animal, Opportunity

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• Even in chimps there is true altruistic behaviour; behaviour that doesn't fit into the sociobiological model that says you either help a close relative and thereby your own genes, or you help somebody else now in return for their help in the future. When a very high-ranking male chimpanzee rescues a little orphan, saving his life, that kind of explanation doesn't work.

  Jane Goodall

  Saving, Littles, Return

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• I describe in 'Chimpanzee Politics' how the alpha male needs broad support to reach the top spot. He needs some close allies and he needs many group members to be on his side.

  Frans de Waal

  Support, Allies, Males

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• I never wanted to give up. I thought I might have to. Especially at the beginning when chimpanzees had never seen a white person before.They gave one look at me and ran away! They were scared, but eventually I got their trust.

  Jane Goodall

  Giving Up, White, Might

  Interview with Pearl Chan, Hetty Lee and Hollie Chung, yp.scmp.com. 2010.

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• Who would seriously want to listen to anything emanating from a quasi-chimpanzee's irrational bundle of mental accidents and energies?

  David A. Noebel

  Energy, Want, Bundles

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• Children, behold the Chimpanzee:
  He sits on the ancestral tree
  From which we sprang in ages gone.

  Oliver Herford

  Children, Tree, Age

  Oliver Herford (2017). “This Giddy Globe”, p.65, Litres

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• I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.

  Hans Rosling

  Motivation, Inspiration, World

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• I never used to like babies. I'd always thought if a baby were more like a chimpanzee, I'd have one

  Candice Bergen

  Baby, Inspiration, Used

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• There is thus a certain plausibility to Nietzsche's doctrine, though it is dynamite. He maintains in effect that the gulf separating Plato from the average man is greater than the cleft between the average man and a chimpanzee.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Plato, Men, Average

  Walter Kaufmann (2008). “Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist”, p.151, Princeton University Press

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• 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 compared with chimpanzees. How much of the universe might they figure out?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Smart, Science, Hair

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• No wonder circus animals do what they do: They tortured them. And you know the only ones they can't control? It's the chimpanzees. You can't control them. That's why you never see a gorilla in a movie, because the gorilla may decide there'll be no filming.

  Paul Mooney

  Animal, May, Gorillas

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We evolved. We have only to look at the pouting face of a young chimpanzee to laugh at its reflections of ourselves. We know that more then 98 percent of our genes are shared with the chimpanzee, but we feel the kinship directly when the furry baby puts up its arms to be held.

  Alison Jolly

  Baby, Reflection, Laughing

  Alison Jolly (2001). “Lucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution”, p.9, Harvard University Press

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• Its important to remember that we evolved. Now, I know thats a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common ancestors with the gorillas, the chimpanzee and also the bonobos. We have a common past, and we have a common future.

  Louise Leakey

  Dirty, Past, People

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• Another potentiality of our irrepressible juvenility is a capacity to maintain until the onset of senility an active creative interaction with our environment. We persist in exploring, investigating, inventing, discovering. In these respects humans of all eras, in all societies, all ages of life, are more like baby chimps and not at all like the sedate and rigidly conforming adult chimpanzee, who hasn't changed much since she was five or six years old.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Baby, Years, Creative

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• Most men probably wouldn't want to live the lives of bonobos. They're constantly clinging to their mothers' apron strings. They lack the ability to make decisions about their own fates, something that we and male chimpanzees practically consider our birthright.

  Frans de Waal

  Mother, Fate, Men

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• My impression is that a sense of rhythm, which has no analog in language, is unique and that its correlation with movement is unique to human beings. Why else would children start to dance when they're two or three? Chimpanzees don't dance.

  Oliver Sacks

  Children, Unique, Two

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• No distinction in kind rather than degree between ourselves and the chimps? No distinction? Seriously, folks? Here is a simple operational test: the chimpanzees invariably are the one behind the bars of their cages.

  David Berlinski

  Simple, Degrees, Bars

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• Rather than something like King Kong where I really went after studying gorillas in the wild and captivity. I based Caesar [ from the Rise of the Planet of the Apes] on a real chimpanzee and I worked with Terry [Notary] on a lot of chimpanzee movement.

  Andy Serkis

  Kings, Real, Captivity

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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