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Primates Quotes

One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'

One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'

Carl Sagan
Argument, Authority, Primates
Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.52, Ballantine Books

Primates are very territorial. It is in their nature to protect their food resources as well as their females and young.

Jane Goodall
Female, Resources, Primates
Source: www.spiegel.de

We are just another primate but a very confused, malleable one.

Robert M. Sapolsky
Confused, Primates
Source: www.psychologytoday.com

The only option is politeness-remember always that you are dealing with other primates.

Paul Ford
Remember, Primates, Politeness

It is a common trait of primates to become submissive and even worshipful toward one who has the power to kill them.

Orson Scott Card
Common, Submissive, Primates
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.264, Macmillan

Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves.

Jonathan Haidt
Social, Primates

The townspeople are morons, yokels, peasants and genus homo boobiensis...surrounded by gaping primates from the upland vallies.

H. L. Mencken
Modern Life, Primates, Peasants

The primate laugh is given in playful contexts, and as such has a strong similarity to the human laugh.

Frans de Waal
Strong, Laughing, Primates

When we are bad, we are worse than any primate that I know. And when we are good, we are actually better and more altruistic than any primate that I know.

Frans de Waal
Primates, Knows

You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time.

Eoin Colfer
Pride, Tasks, Primates
Eoin Colfer (2009). “And Another Thing...”, Hyperion

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