Chimpanzee Quotes

“You can't teach calculus to a chimpanzee. So just share your banana.”
― John Rachel, Blinders Keepers

“But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.”
― Jane Goodall

“At that moment there was no need of any scientific knowledge to understand his communication of reassurance. The soft pressure of his fingers spoke to me not through my intellect but through a more primitive emotional channel: the barrier of untold centuries which has grown up during the separate evolution of man and chimpanzee was, for those few seconds, broken down.

It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.”
― Jane Goodall, In the Shadow of Man

“He was a small, bandy-legged man, with a certain resemblance to a chimpanzee who never got invited to tea parties.

His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“De la verdad no pido en demasía:
la casa en orden,
un suéter, alimentos.
Afuera el Caos
haga nacer
geranios del rosal
y un chimpancé
que a cambio de monedas
traduzca por escrito
un parlamento
de Hamlet o de Otelo
(con impecable
aunque un poco anticuada
ortografía).”
― Renato Tinajero, Fábulas e historias de estrategas

“Human rulers get poisoned or decapitated or simply voted out of office all the time, as our set of personal desires, our chimpanzee DNA, rears its individualistic head.”
― Edward Slingerland, Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization

“If a person can gaze upon a chimpanzee in a suit without recognizing it as mockery in 99% of cases, we confront an individual who has lost themselves and is predisposed to cruel actions against others—a tragic reflection of humanity's capacity for blindness and indifference.”
― Elena Y. Goldberg

“Even though I knew she never belonged to me, my heart didn't agree.”
― Gail Gillespie-Fox

“La divergence entre l’Homme et les Chimpanzés, ou entre l’Homme et le couple Chimpanzé-Gorille, ne date que de 7 millions d’années environ”
― Jean-Jacques Hublin, Quand d'autres hommes peuplaient la Terre : nouveaux regards sur nos origines

“Falitz began running seminars for the group, but she never understood why Terrace was hiring people who did not know ASL for an ASL project. Wambach's criticism went further. She thought that Nim should have been raised in a deaf family from infancy. Giving him to the LaFarges was like putting a child in an Italian family to learn German.”
― Elizabeth Hess, Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human