quotes about Apes
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
-- Abraham Cowley -
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
-- Arthur Helps -
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.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
At once I feel that comedy is this amazing sort of transcendent thing, and I'm also open to the fact that maybe it's just an evolutionary hiccup, something that upright apes do in their free time.
-- Bo Burnham -
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There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a mask, it can display itself suddenly with terrifying effect.
-- Bruce CattonSource : Bruce Catton (2011). “This Hallowed Ground: A History of the Civil War”, p.3, Vintage
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I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none.
-- Carl Linnaeus -
When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld.
-- Charles LyellSource : Charles Lyell (2005). “The Geological Evidence of Man”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.
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One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time.
-- Charles Stross -
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On Planet of the Apes, I had a very knowledgeable team who knew good materials, but I had one main source person who worked online and on the street continually looking for the proper materials.
-- Colleen Atwood -
It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.
-- Cornelia Otis SkinnerSource : Cornelia Otis Skinner (1959). “The Ape in Me”
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The library is what keeps us a step ahead of the apes.
-- Dana Stabenow -
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.
-- David Ben-Gurion -
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It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes.
-- Dian FosseySource : Dian Fossey (2000). “Gorillas in the Mist”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes.
-- Eric Temple Bell -
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 -
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 -
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It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with tender embraces.
-- Frans de Waal -
The fact that the apes exist and that we can study them is extremely important and makes us reflect on ourselves and our human nature. In that sense alone, you need to protect the apes.
-- Frans de Waal -
Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
The great thing about this jungle of ours is that anyone of you could grow up to be Lord of the apes.
-- Gary Larson -
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I was pretty young when I saw the original Planet of the Apes, and for a time in the seventies, I was pretty obsessed with it.
-- Gregory Keyes -
My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes.
-- Gregory Keyes -
On corsets: I said, You have got to be kidding. I am an ape and yet I am still expected to squeeze myself into one of those damn things.
-- Helena Bonham Carter -
Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning.
-- J. Lee Thompson -
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The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.
-- John Philip Sousa -
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Who are we? That is the big question. And essentially we are just an upright, walking, big brained, super intelligent ape.
-- Louise LeakeySource : "A dig for humanity's origins". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2008.
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The solution is not to reinvent ourselves, not to ape the Labour Party or the Liberal Democrats.
-- Malcolm Rifkind -
Civilization is only possible for deeply unpleasant animals. It is only an ape that can be truly civilized.
-- Mark RowlandsSource : Mark Rowlands (2010). “The Philosopher and the Wolf: Lessons from the Wild on Love, Death, and Happiness”, p.65, Pegasus Books
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While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.
-- Mark Twain -
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It wasn't a monkey on my back, it was Planet of the Apes.
-- Mick McCarthy -
The first ape who became a man thus committed treason against his own kind.
-- Mikhail Turovsky -
Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.
-- Osbert SitwellSource : Osbert Sitwell (1977). “The Cruel Month”, Olympic Marketing Corp
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I would rather be a transformed ape than a degenerate son of Adam.
-- Paul Broca -
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I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms. . . Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of superiority.
-- Paul Watson -
Almost all theological thought is anthropocentric and I just cannot buy into the anthropocentric ideology. Basically we're a bunch of conceited apes.
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Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
-- Peter Kreeft -
A homely woman is one of the most comely of apes.
-- Publilius Syrus -
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
-- Richard Dawkins -
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. Our common ancestor with the chimpanzees and gorillas is much more recent than their common ancestor with the Asian apes--the gibbons and orangutans. There is no natural category that includes chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans but excludes humans.
-- Richard Dawkins -
We are bipedal apes, and it should not be surprising to see that fact reflected in the way our ancestors lived.
-- Richard Leakey -
We're still just the world's premium brand of ape.
-- Rick Bayan -
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We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels.
-- Robert ArdreySource : Robert Ardrey (1977). “The Hunting Hypothesis: A Personal Conclusion Concerning the Evolutionary Nature of Man”
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We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?
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Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.
-- Robert E. HowardSource : Robert E. Howard (2007). “The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom”, p.17, Del Rey
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People still don't get how astounding Darwinism is. People think what shocked everybody was that Charles Darwin seemed to be saying we had descended from apes.
-- Stephen Fry -
You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others
-- Steven Erikson -
It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to make knowing obsolete.
-- Sugata Mitra -
Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.
-- Terence McKenna -
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I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.
-- Terry Pratchett -
I'm a big, big movie fan. I watch 'The Ten Commandments' and the original 'Planet of the Apes' every night.
-- Tracy Morgan -
Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.
-- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.
-- Will Cuppy -
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Not a superman who stumbles, but an ape with makeshift manners in whose nickel-plated jungles roam mechanical bananas.
-- William Tenn -
Bonobos are unique among great apes because they are not dominated by males.
-- Claudine AndreSource : "Bonobos: What we can learn from our primate cousin". "60 Minutes" with Anderson Cooper, www.cbsnews.com. December 6, 2015.
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Cheetah bit me whenever he could. The [Tarzan movie] apes were all homosexuals, eager to wrap their paws around Johnny Weismuller's thighs. They were jealous of me, and I loathed them.
-- Maureen O'Sullivan -
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It's complicated. On the one hand we're killer apes, and on the other hand we have this metaphysical longing.
-- Simon Critchley