Eugene Dubois quotes

Eugene Dubois quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Thus the evidence given by those five new thigh bones of the morphological and functional distinctness of Pithecanthropus erectus furnishes proof, at the same time, of its close affinity with the gibbon group of anthropoid apes.”
-- Eugene Dubois

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“After 9/11, the amount of applicants the FBI received increased exponentially. Whereas you used to require a college degree, and it was a small group of people who were just out of college, after 9/11, it changed.”

Source : "Aaron Tveit Will Be Received". Interview with Dawn Kay, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 4, 2013.
“I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.”
“Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.”
“Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!”
“The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.”
“One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which oneâ€™s god module is overactive at the time.”
“Terrorism benefits the Arabs, it may lay waste the Yishuv and shake Zionism. But to follow in the Arabs' footsteps and ape their deeds is to be blind to the gulf between us. Our aims and theirs run counter: methods calculated to further theirs, are ruinous to us.”
“Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.”
“It's easy to forget people are blood and bone. They're not indestructible.”
“We definitely aren't very good at staying in one place. There's not a domesticated bone in my body.”

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