Baboons Quotes

• There once was a brainy baboon,
  Who always breathed down a bassoon,
  For he said, It appears
  That in billions of years
  I shall certainly hit on a tune.

  Arthur Eddington

  Years, Tunes, Bassoon

  New Pathways in Science Chapter III, Section IV The End of the World (p. 62)

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• If the press really thinks Obama is Lincoln, they ought to treat him like they treated Bush, 'cause that's how they treated Lincoln. His critics compared Lincoln to an ape; they called him an illiterate baboon.

  Ann Coulter

  Thinking, Causes, Apes

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• Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Average, Feelings, Share

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• Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.

  Aldous Huxley

  Animal, Atheism, Cows

  "Do What You Will". Book by Aldous Huxley, 1929.

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• In the Baboon community, it is not how strong you are that is important, but who you know that counts

  David Attenborough

  Strong, Community, Important

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• The Chameleon's face reminded Aristotle of a Baboon. Aristotle wasn't much of a looker himself.

  Will Cuppy

  Faces, Chameleon, Footnotes

  "The Chameleon". "How to Become Extinct". Book by Will Cuppy, 1941.

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• What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ass back?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Success, Want, Faces

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• A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity; but a baboon in your wife’s bed is a cause of the gravest concern.

  Winston Churchill

  Zoos, Wife, Curiosity

  Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit”

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• He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.

  Charles Darwin

  Metaphysics

  "Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies".

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• Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive; they wind up as meat for leopards.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Wind, Moral Behavior, Meat

  "Expanded Universe". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1980.

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• For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the life of his keeper; or from that old baboon, who, descending from the mountains, carried away in triumph his young comrade from a crowd of astonished dogs-as from a savage who delights to torture his enemies, offers up bloody sacrifices, practices infanticide without remorse, treats his wives like slaves, knows no decency, and is haunted by the grossest superstitions.

  Charles Darwin

  Dog, Sacrifice, Order

  The Descent of Man ch. 21 (1871)

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• I'm definitely preoccupied by thinking I'm just a biological thing. I want to feel that there's more, but so often I'm reminded of how we're just like baboons, basically.

  Yannis Philippakis

  Thinking, Want, Feels

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.

  Will Cuppy

  Facts

  Will Cuppy, P. G. Wodehouse (2005). “How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes”, p.29, David R. Godine Publisher

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• You are one freaking awesome baboon.

  Rick Riordan

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• Our descent, then, is the origin of our evil passions!! The devil under form of Baboon is our grandfather.

  Charles Darwin

  Passion, Evil, Grandfather

  Charles Darwin (2010). “Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies”, p.33, OUP Oxford

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• What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited behavior patterns of lizards and baboons: territoriality and aggression and dominance hierarchies. We are each of us largely responsible for what gets put in to our brains. For what as adults we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain we can change ourselves. Think of the possibilities.

  Carl Sagan

  Caring, Thinking, Wind

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". TV Series (Episode 11: The Persistence of Memory), 1990.

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• It had always been a notion of mine that sanity is like a clearing in the jungle where the humans agree to meet from time to time and behave in certain fixed ways that even a baboon could master, like Englishmen dressing for dinner in the tropics.

  Wilfrid

  Dinner, Way, Sanity

  "In Love with Daylight". Book by Wilfrid Sheed, 1995.

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• Medicine is magical and magical is art, the boy in the bubble, and the baby with the baboon heart.

  Paul Simon

  Baby, Art, Animal

  Paul Simon (2012). “Lyrics 1964 - 2011”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state as we may hope, than the Caucasian and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Race, Doubt

  Charles Darwin (2008). “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex”, p.201, Princeton University Press

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• I’ll make Goyle do lines, it’ll kill him, he hates writing,” said Ron happily. He lowered his voice to Goyle’s low grunt and, screwing up his face in a look of pained concentration, mimed writing in midair. “I... must... not... look... like... a... baboon’s... backside.

  J. K. Rowling

  Hate, Writing, Voice

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• I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Mountain, Gorillas, Grew Up

  Robert M. Sapolsky (2007). “A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• If you care about your longevity and health, be a socially affiliated baboon who is better than high-ranking ones at walking away from provocations.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Walking Away, Care, Ranking

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never actually entrust my heart to scientists—they'd probably implant it in a baboon. And a baboon with my heart would be practically unstoppable. Baboon strength and agility combined with my determination and media savvy? It would be a threat to all of humanity.

  Stephen Colbert

  Determination, Heart, Media

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• Right,” I said. “So the baboon, the crocodile…any other pets I should know about?” Amos thought for a moment. “Visible ones? No, I think that’s it.

  Rick Riordan

  Thinking, Pet, Moments

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• In technological development, in production of material goods and creature comforts, we've challenged the very gods, but psychologically, emotionally, we're scarcely more than chimpanzees with bulldozers, baboons with big bombs.

  Tom Robbins

  Technological Development, Comfort, Bombs

  "The Syntax of Sorcery: An Interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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