Chimpanzees Quotes - Page 4

• If we start with chimpanzees, they differ from us with the composition of the DNA by only just over one percent. So, as far as genetics go, we're almost identical. The composition of the blood, the immune system, the structure of the brain - almost identical.

  Jane Goodall

  Blood, Dna, Brain

  Interview with Suza Scalora, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Chimpanzees are incredibly intelligent. They can learn more than 400 signs of American Sign Language. They have memories for spatial distribution, like numbers on a TV screen, way better than ours. You come onto the emotions: happiness, sadness, fear, and despair - all the things for which I was accused of being anthropomorphic when I ascribed them to chimpanzees.

  Jane Goodall

  Memories, Sadness, Intelligent

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• If we fail to realize our full potential as human beings, we live more on an animalistic level. This is fine for dogs, cats, and chimpanzees but doesn't work quite so well for women and men. Without the capacity to freely shape our own lives, much as a sculptor might carve stone, we inevitably slip into negativity and depression.

  H. E Davey

  Dog, Cat, Men

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• The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Animal, Mass

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.450

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• Considering the very close genetic relationship that has been established by comparison of biochemical properties of blood proteins, protein structure and DNA, and immunological responses, the differences between a man and a chimpanzee are more astonishing than the resemblances.

  Elaine Morgan

  Men, Dna, Blood

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• Chimpanzees, typically, kiss and embrace after fights. They first make eye contact from a distance to see the mood of the others. Then they approach and kiss and embrace.

  Frans de Waal

  Distance, Eye, Fighting

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• Molecular evidense suggests that our common ancestor with the chimpanzees lived, in Africa, between 5 and 7 million years ago, say half a million generations ago. This is not long by evolutionary standards.

  Richard Dawkins

  Years, Long, Generations

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine - but to hang all this desperate sociology on the idea of The Cloud-Guy who has The Big Book, who knows if you've been bad or good - and CARES about any of it - to hang it all on that, folks, is the chimpanzee part of the brain working.

  Frank Zappa

  Atheist, Book, Love You

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

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• A chimpanzee could learn what I do physically, but it goes way beyond that. When you play, you play life.

  Jaco Pastorius

  Music, Play, Way

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• I’ll give you a theory: Man’s closest relative is not the chimpanzee, as the TV people believe, but is, in fact, the dog.

  Garth Stein

  Dog, Believe, Men

  Garth Stein (2011). “Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religion, Half, Made

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• He couldn't tell the difference between one politician and another. They were all formlessly enthusiastic chimpanzees to him.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Differences, Politician, Enthusiastic

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• What is the good of words if they aren't important enough to quarrel over? Why do we choose one word more than another if there isn't any difference between them? If you called a woman a chimpanzee instead of an angel, wouldn't there be a quarrel about a word? If you're not going to argue about words, what are you going to argue about? Are you going to convey your meaning to me by moving your ears? The Church and the heresies always used to fight about words, because they are the only thing worth fighting about.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Moving, Angel, Fighting

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• A chimpanzee who is really gearing up for a fight doesn't waste time with gestures but just goes ahead and attacks.

  Frans de Waal

  Fighting, Gestures, Waste

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• And people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings are just an animal and they will evolve into another animal, and that animal will be cleverer and it will put human beings into a zoo, like we put chimpanzees and gorillas into a zoo. Or human beings will all catch a disease and die out or they will make too much pollution and kill themselves, and then there will only be insects in the world and they will be the best animal.

  Mark Haddon

  Zoos, Believe, Animal

  "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time". Book by Mark Haddon, 2003.

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• I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws.

  S. J. Perelman

  Funny, Beautiful, Girl

  1944 Crazy Like a Fox,'Captain Future, BlockThat Kick'.

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• Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Crazy, Kids, Fighting

  "Cold Turkey" by Kurt Vonnegut, inthesetimes.com. May 10, 2004.

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• Male chimpanzees have an extraordinarily strong drive for dominance. They're constantly jockeying for position.

  Frans de Waal

  Strong, Males, Dominance

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• Imagine a life-form whose brainpower is to ours as ours is to a chimpanzee’s. To such a species, our highest mental achievements would be trivial. Their toddlers, instead of learning their ABCs on Sesame Street, would learn multivariable calculus on Boolean Boulevard. Our most complex theorems, our deepest philosophies, the cherished works of our most creative artists, would be projects their schoolkids bring home for Mom and Dad to display on the refrigerator door.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Mom, Dad, Philosophy

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• Chimpanzees is hatin but I take it all in stride. Put her in a jungle with bananas on the side.

  Nicki Minaj

  Bananas, Sides, Stride

  Song: Till The World Ends

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• I'd like to see animals removed from the entertainment business. Chimpanzees and apes won't perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep elephants in chains 90 percent of the time. Elephants need freedom of movement. In circuses, they live in cramped quarters, which is not the life intended for them by nature. Some are beaten daily, forced to do ridiculous tricks and robbed of every shred of dignity.

  Bob Barker

  Animal, Elephants, Circus

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• It is inconceivable that you would ever see two chimpanzees carrying a log together.

  Michael Tomasello

  Two, Together

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• I think if you're good and you can persuade people you're going to be able to do that role and ultimately the audience buys it, then it doesn't matter whether you were really a chimpanzee in disguise! You've done it.

  Alexander Siddig

  Thinking, People, Roles

  "Alexander Siddig Is Part of Julian Schnabel’s Latest Cinematic Canvas". Interview with Ashley Wren Collins, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 7, 2010.

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• With regard to the alternatives, we already have them. The cellular and genetic lines of research in humans are the most promising. AIDS is caused by a virus, so it makes sense to study the virus, not chimpanzees. We have learned virtually nothing about AIDS from the chimpanzee. Every major advance in AIDS research ... has come from human studies.

  Roger Fouts

  Atheism, Alternatives, Research

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• What a dull universe it would be if everything in it conformed to our expectations, if it held nothing to surprise or baffle us or confound our common sense. A century ago no one foresaw the existence of black holes, an expanding universe, oceans on Jupiter's moons, or DNA. What could be more enriching than to know that we share a common origin with all living things, that we are kin to chimpanzees, redwoods and mollusks? And isn't it a source of wonder to realize that the iron in our blood and the calcium in our bones were created in the bellies of supernovas?

  Steven Pinker

  Ocean, Moon, Dna

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