Neanderthals Quotes:

Bryan - a great friend of mine, by the way - had a Neanderthal type of head, Burbank says. As to Riley, he has not even the oratorical skill of Bryan. The whole movement is based on the poor whites of the south.

- Luther Burbank

topic: Skills, Atheism, Neanderthals, Bryan

At times, I come across as crude or crass, that irritates you when I come across like a Neanderthal or a babbling idiot at times. But I like to be that person. I like to show you all that person because that's who you come to see.

- Mike Tyson

topic: Neanderthals, Idiot, Crass, Babbling

The recreation of Neanderthals would be mainly a question of societal risk avoidance.

- George M. Church

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Risk, Neanderthals, Would Be

I like to imagine that the Neanderthals were all really good artists.

- Jim Drain

topic: Artist, Neanderthals, Imagine

The definition of who's literate and who's not keeps changing. So, in Neanderthal times, if you painted on a cave wall, that was enough to transmit how you hunt, how you eat, how you cook, how you dress, and we can read about that.

- Juan Enriquez

source: Source: bigthink.com

topic: Wall, Neanderthals, Dresses

The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.

- Rachel Carson

source: Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.297, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Arrogance, Neanderthals, Phrases, Silent Spring

I know at times I come across like a Neanderthal or a babbling idiot, but I like that person.

- Mike Tyson

source: "Mike Tyson on Broadway" by Avi Steinberg, www.newyorker.com. August 9, 2012.

topic: Neanderthals, Idiot, Persons, Babbling

Faced with the challenge of an endless universe, Man will be forced to mature further, just as the Neanderthal-faced with an entire planet-had no choice but to grow away from the tradition of savagery.

- Dean Koontz

topic: Science, Men, Choices, Neanderthals, Savagery

Neanderthals might think differently than we do. We know that they had a larger cranial size. They could even be more intelligent than us. When the time comes to deal with an epidemic or getting off the planet or whatever, it's conceivable that their way of thinking could be beneficial.

- George M. Church

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Intelligent, Thinking, Epidemics, Neanderthals

The mythos-over-logos argument points to the fact that each child is born as ignorant as any caveman. What keeps the world from reverting to the Neandertal with each generation is the continuing, ongoing mythos, transformed into logos but still mythos, the huge body of common knowledge that unites our minds as cells are united in the body of man. To feel that one is not so united, that one can accept or discard this mythos as one pleases, is not to understand what the mythos is.

- Robert M. Pirsig

source: "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (ZAMM)". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

topic: Art, Children, Men, Neanderthals, Common Knowledge

It should soon be possible dramatically to increase the intelligence and life span of a few individuals [with the help of genetic engineering]. They and their offspring could become a master race. Evolution pays no regard to social justice. It was not fair on the Neanderthals they were replaced by modern humans.

- Stephen Hawking

topic: Race, Engineering, Justice, Offspring, Life Span

Neanderthals were pretty smart, and if we actively killed them off, then probably we did so in the same way that humans kill each other.

- Elizabeth Kolbert

source: "Ask the Author Live: Elizabeth Kolbert on Neanderthals". The New Yorker interview, www.newyorker.com. August 12, 2011.

topic: Neanderthals

Like Neanderthals, men prefer to hunt alone or, if in a pack, at the head of it. Women, whether in the field or in a campfire, are collaborative, and when they hunt...they work together.

- Russell Banks

topic: Men, Together, Fields, Neanderthals

It seems that the Neanderthal DNA that modern Europeans and Asians (and also Native Americans and basically all non-African people) are carrying around is random. This means there are different bits and pieces in different populations, but it doesn't seem to amount to much that's significant.

- Elizabeth Kolbert

source: "Ask the Author Live: Elizabeth Kolbert on Neanderthals". The New Yorker interview, www.newyorker.com. August 12, 2011.

topic: Neanderthals, Bits And Pieces

Chauvet Cave is rather like the awakening of the modern human soul or I would say the awakening of modern human culture. Because Neanderthal men who still rode the landscape parallel to the people who did these paintings didn't have culture. There's no evidence of culture, no symbolic depiction, no evidence of music, no evidence of sculptures, no evidence of religious beliefs.

- Werner Herzog

topic: Religious, Men, People, Neanderthals

Men are not as sophisticated as women. They're not as mature as women. They're not as connected with their emotions as women...There's a very Neanderthal quality that still exists in a lot of men... And if you're in the public eye, to me, it's very boring to say what you have to say and be media trained to the extent that you don't ever reveal any truth. There was a time in my life when I lived probably a bit more on the primal level. And it was amazing.

- Adam Levine

topic: Eye, Men, Media, Neanderthals

Asian Homo erectus died without issue and does not enter our immediate ancestry (for we evolved from African populations); Neanderthal people were collateral cousins, perhaps already living in Europe while we emerged in Africa... In other words, we are an improbable and fragile entity, fortunately successful after precarious beginnings as a small population in Africa, not the predictable end result of a global tendency. We are a thing, an item of history, not an embodiment of general principles.

- Stephen Jay Gould

source: "Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History".

topic: Cousin, Successful, Science, Neanderthals, Collateral

I did not mean to suggest that autism could be traced to Neanderthal genes. The point is that some genes that have been implicated in autism changed pretty significantly between the time Neanderthal line and human line split.

- Elizabeth Kolbert

source: "Ask the Author Live: Elizabeth Kolbert on Neanderthals". The New Yorker interview, www.newyorker.com. August 12, 2011.

topic: Neanderthals

The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.

- Rachel Carson

topic: Nature, Philosophy, Men, Neanderthals, Silent Spring

Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull.

- E. M. Forster

topic: Men, Skulls, Judging, Neanderthals, Contending

I've talked to biblical cats, and Neanderthals who been here since day one. No one here has even seen the Big Boss. Ever.

- Lenny Bruce

source: "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

topic: Cat, Biblical, Boss, Neanderthals

Liberals in blue states just think that when they look in the mirror and say to themselves "I'm for the environment, I'm for the children, I'm for the gay people, I'm against war," it pits automatically, and the oppressor/oppressed leftist mindset that anyone that would disagree with them isn't conservative, they're crazy. They're Nazis, they're facists, they're evil.

- Andrew Breitbart

source: Source: www.newsbusters.org

topic: Children, Crazy, War, Neanderthals, Gay People

In the 50,000 years that followed—a time four to eight times shorter than the entire length of time the Neanderthals existed—the replacement crowd not only settled on almost every habitable speck of land on the planet, they developed technology that allowed them to go to the moon and beyond.

- Svante Paabo

topic: Moon, Technology, Eight, Neanderthals

Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying "wolf, wolf" and there was no wolf behind him.

- Vladimir Nabokov

source: Lectures on Literature "Good Readers and Good Writers" (1980)

topic: Running, Writing, Boys, Neanderthals, Crying Wolf

Back when we were Neanderthals or whatever, we evolved to think along tribal lines. Survival was based on this idea of who are we and who are the others who will come and take our resources. I think it's an animal and a human thing that we all see in terms of us vs. them, and race is a very easy way to separate who is us and who is them.

- Jordan Peele

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Neanderthals

This is the birth of the modern human soul. The artists are like us, not like the Neanderthals, who had no culture - and who incidentally were still roaming the landscape at the time the paintings were made. It is striking that there is a distant cultural echo that seems to reach all the way down to us, over dozens of millennia.

- Werner Herzog

source: "'The Birth of the Modern Human Soul'". Interview with David Gordon Smith, www.spiegel.de. February 16, 2011.

topic: Artist, Echoes, Soul, Neanderthals

Of course it hurt you neanderthal! See that? Thats blood. If theres blood, theres pain. Its like smoke and fire.

- Jennifer Crusie

topic: Hurt, Pain, Fire, Neanderthals, Smoke And Fire

Let no one mistake it for comedy, farcical though it may be in all its details. It serves notice on the country that Neanderthal man is organizing in these forlorn backwaters of the land, led by a fanatic, rid of sense and devoid of conscience.

- H. L. Mencken

topic: Country, Mistake, Science, Neanderthals

There are some die-hard male chauvinist pigs and there are some Neanderthal women who are threatened by equality - but the great majority, polls say 65% to 75% of women of America, of all ages, absolutely identify with the complete agenda of the women's movement: equal opportunity for jobs, education, professional training, the right to control your own body - your own reproductive process, freedom of choice, child care-the whole agenda.

- Betty Friedan

source: Source: articles.latimes.com

topic: Jobs, Children, Opportunity, Male Chauvinist, Freedom Of Choice

There was a day when you could identify a NASCAR Ford, Chevrolet, or Dodge and they actually looked like "stock cars." Now they are pod machines, slick on the outside but still powered by the same Neanderthal carbureted pushrod V-8s that have been under their hoods for half a century. If this is real auto racing, then the WWF ought to be part of the Olympics.

- Brock Yates

topic: Real, Car, Racing, Neanderthals, Auto Racing

Should men and women be equal in all things? Absolutely. But I'm old-fashioned in that I like the differences between the sexes. My male characters are neither Neanderthals nor Prince Charmings. They're flawed.

- Sandra Brown

source: "Sandra Brown, author of 'Deadline'". Interview with Joyce Lamb, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. October 27, 2013.

topic: Sex, Character, Men, Neanderthals

Once— and most of the night definitely counts as once—you can write off as a mistake. But you do this again and he's going to start thinking he has rights over you.” She knew predatory changeling men. They liked control. They particularly liked their women to submit. And Riley was one big giant hunk of testosterone-fueled Neanderthal wolf—he probably thought her submission was his right. She snorted. “Not in this lifetime.

- Nalini Singh

source: Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series”, p.31, Penguin

topic: Mistake, Writing, Night, Neanderthals, Changelings

I kept a straight face while my inner Neanderthal spluttered and then went on a mental rampage through a hypothetical produce section, knocking over shelves and spattering fruit everywhere in sheer frustration, screaming, 'JUST TELL ME WHOSE SKULL TO CRACK WITH MY CLUB, DAMMIT!

- Jim Butcher

topic: Frustration, Skulls, Clubs, Rampage, Straight Face

I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of course the pictorial magazines and comic strips finally atrophy man's capacity to read, and literature really is on its way back to the picture writing in the Neanderthal cave.

- William Faulkner

topic: Writing, Men, Long, Neanderthals, Pictorial

What you want is a comfortable environment that you feel you can invent in. Because film is such a lumbering, technical, huge, great Neanderthal thing, it's hard to create that little space of peace, and calm, and creativity, and ease. That's what you want the director to create for you, so that when you walk on the set, you forget all of that, and the fact that it's costing gazillions of dollars a second.

- Helen Mirren

source: Source: www.moviesonline.ca

topic: Creativity, Space, Directors, Neanderthals

In Hollywood, there really is a stigma against wrestling. I think that's why people think wrestlers are Neanderthals who can't string two words together.

- Chris Jericho

topic: Wrestling, Thinking, Two, Neanderthals

Thanks is part to our education system, we tend to think that we're smarter than the stupid guys in funny wigs who came before us. But that's because we are mistaking technology, progress, and access to information for intelligence. We think that because we know how to use iPhones (but not build them), browse the Internet (but not understand how it works), and use Google (but not really know anything), our educational system is working just great. By the same token, we think that those dumb aristocrats who used horses to get around and didn't have electricity were neanderthals.

- Glenn Beck

topic: Horse, Educational, Stupid, Stupid Guy, Neanderthals

To women, drummers seem like these adorable, sexy Neanderthals, and lead singers seem mysterious and dangerous. So while the lead singers all want to be David Bowie, floating into parties and being the center of attention, it's the drummers who are in the corner doing keg stands and breaking tables. Usually it's the drummers who get the fun-loving ladies and the singers who get the nutcases.

- Dave Grohl

topic: Sexy, Fun, Party, Kegs, Neanderthals