Chimpanzee Quotes
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I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws.
s. j. perelman— 1944 Crazy Like a Fox, 'Captain Future, Block That Kick'.
To watch him fumbling with our rich and delicate English language is like seeing a Se' vres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.
— Of Sir Stephen Spender. Quoted by Eric Pace in Spender's obituary in the NewYorkTimes,18 Jul1995.
I guess I’m just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation’s laws.
s. j. perelman— "Captain Future, Block That Kick!", The Most of S. J. Perelman (1992) p. 71
The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome? away from being chimpanzee.
christopher hitchens— Christopher Hitchens vs. Barry Brummett, 04/06/2011 YouTube video
During a debate with Farrell Till, Hovind made the following claim about Donald Johanson: " [He] found the leg bones of Lucy a mile and a half away from the head bones. The leg bones were 200 feet deeper in a deeper layer of strata. I would like to know how fast the train was going that hit that chimpanzee ."
kent hovind— However, the claim itself is false and, while Hovind has been informed of this, he continues to make it. [2].
Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyweight champion of the world. Skin a chimpanzee, and it would take an autopsy to prove he was not a theologian.
h. l. mencken— Baltimore Evening Sun (4 April 1927)
During a debate with Farrell Till, Hovind made the following claim about Donald Johanson: " [He] found the leg bones of Lucy a mile and a half away from the head bones. The leg bones were 200 feet deeper in a deeper layer of strata. I would like to know how fast the train was going that hit that chimpanzee ."
— However, the claim itself is false and, while Hovind has been informed of this, he continues to make it. [2].
Common chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes (West and Central Africa) Bonobo, Pan paniscus (forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo) Sourced
jane goodall— Jane Goodall, In the Shadow of Man (1971), p. 199
I do not want to discuss evolution in such depth, however, only touch on it from my own perspective: from the moment when I stood on the Serengeti plains holding the fossilized bones of ancient creatures in my hands to the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back. You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important than how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.
jane goodall— Jane Goodall, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey, Warner Books: 2000, p. 2
There is thus a certain plausibility to Nietzsche's doctrine, though it is dynamite. He maintains in effect that the gulf separating Plato from the average man is greater than the cleft between the average man and a chimpanzee.
walter kaufmann— Walter Kaufmann, Nietzsche, Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist, (1951) p. 151
Actually, the gap between say Plato or Nietzsche and the average human is greater than the gap between that chimpanzee and the average human.
— Richard Linklater, Waking Life, (2001)
So far as cerebral structure goes... it is clear that Man differs less from the chimpanzee or the Orang, than these do even from the Monkeys, and that the difference between the brains of the chimpanzee and of Man is almost insignificant, when compared with that between the chimpanzee brain and that of a Lemur.
thomas henry huxley— Ch.2, p.120
Children, behold the chimpanzee; He sits on the ancestral tree From which we sprang in ages gone. I'm glad we sprang: had we held on, We might, for aught that I can say, Be horrid Chimpanzees to-day.
oliver herford— Oliver Herford, The Chimpanzee; Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 241-42.
I do not want to discuss evolution in such depth, however, only touch on it from my own perspective: from the moment when I stood on the Serengeti plains holding the fossilized bones of ancient creatures in my hands to the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back. You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important than how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.
jane goodall— P. xx. (Reason for Hope: a Spiritual Journey (2000))
