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“Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material.”

Men Mind Matter States Form Order Process Animal Results Materials Species Materialistic Primates

Book:The Meaning of Evolution

Source: The Meaning of Evolution

“Primate books are good for us. They remind us that we're primates, too. And the embarrassing primate books are best. Macachiavellian Intelligence is an excellently embarrassing primate book, and just the thing to make us blush and shuffle our feet.”

Book Feet Embarrassing Primates Shuffle

Author:Michael Bywater

“The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.”

Humans Passion Animal Lists Human Animal Primates Totems

Author:H. Allen Smith

“Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.”

Play Games Social Killing Insight Primates

Author:Keith Henson

“[A primate ban] would force us to abandon research that could lead to treatments for Alzheimer's, motor neurone disease, strokes and many other illnesses”

Force Animal Disease Research Illness Treatment Abandon Strokes Motor Bans Alzheimer Alzheimer's Primates

Author:Tipu Aziz

“We remain of the view that in many areas of research we are still reliant on primates to achieve our goals for improving human health”

Humans Stills Goal Animal Views Achieve Research Areas Improving Primates Human Health

Author:Colin Blakemore

“God was created by evolution, inside the imagination of a primate.”

God Religion Imagination Honesty Evolution Editors Primates Anti Religion God Delusion

Author:Steve Fowler

“It's not that humans and non-humans are identical... but the lack of understanding that led to the slave trade is the same lack of understanding many people have about animals today. When slaves were brought over from Africa, many people believed they were not humans, that they didn't have feelings. Many people believe that primates and other animals don't have feelings, too, but they do.”

People Believe Humans Feelings Today Understanding Animal Trade Slave Animal Rights Identical Primates Lack Of Understanding Slave Trade

Author:Jane Goodall

“It must be stressed that there is nothing insulting about looking at people as animals. We are animals, after all. Homo sapiens is a species of primate, a biological phenomenon dominated by biological rules, like any other species. Human nature is no more than one particular kind of animal nature. Agreed, the human species is an extraordinary animal; but all other species are also extraordinary animals, each in their own way, and the scientific man-watcher can bring many fresh insights to the study of human affairs if he can retain this basic attitude of evolutionary humility.”

Source: Manwatching: A Field Guide to Human Behavior

“Most animals, including most domesticated primates (humans) show truly staggering ability to 'ignore' certain kinds of information - that which does not 'fit' their imprinted/ conditioned reality-tunnel”

Humans Kind Doe Shows Reality Certain Ability Animal Information Fit Including Tunnels Staggering Primates

Book:Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your World

Source: Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your World

“To assert that the universe has a purpose implies the universe has intent. And intent implies a desired outcome. But who would do the desiring? And what would a desired outcome be? That carbon-based life is inevitable? Or that sentient primates are life's neurological pinnacle? Are answers to these questions even possible without expressing a profound bias of human sentiment? Of course humans were not around to ask these questions for 99.9999% of cosmic history. So if the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.”

Ifs Humans Life Is Purpose Universe Courses Asks Answers Profound Inevitable Outcomes Existentialism Cosmos Sentiments Cosmic Bias Carbon Pinnacle Primates

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Primates are the only animals on the face of the earth that can taste sweet and see color. We were designed by nature to see, grasp, eat, and enjoy the flavor of colorful, sweet fruits.”

Earth Faces Enjoy Animal Color Sweet Taste Fruit Flavor Colorful Primates Sweet Fruit

Author:Joel Fuhrman

“I am a vegetarian because I realized that even little chickens suffer pain and fear, experience a range of feelings and emotions, and are as intelligent as mammals, including dogs, cats, and even some primates.”

Littles Feelings Pain Suffering Emotion Dog Cat Intelligent Including I Realized Range Chickens Vegetarian Feelings And Emotions Mammals Primates

Author:Paul McCartney

“I have often noticed how primate groups in their entirety enter a similar mood. All of a sudden, all of them are playful, hopping around. Or all of them are grumpy. Or all of them are sleepy and settle down. In such cases, the mood contagion serves the function of synchronizing activities.”

Cases Groups Activity Function Mood Settling Settling Down Sleepy Entirety Primates Contagion Grumpy Hopping

Author:Frans de Waal

“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.”

Knows Primates

Author:Frans de Waal

“Everybody who has ever worked for a corporation knows that corporations conspire all the time. Politicians conspire all the time, pot-dealers conspire not to get caught by the narcs, the world is full of conspiracies. Conspiracy is natural primate behavior.”

Knows World Natural Politician Behavior Caught Corporations Pot Conspiracy Dealer Primates

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“One of the great commandments of science is, 'Mistrust arguments from authority'. (Scientists, being primates, and thus given to dominance hierarchies, of course do not always follow this commandment.)”

Courses Given Authority Argument Scientist Commandments Hierarchy Dominance Mistrust Primates

Book:Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“As this VP discovered, being a boss is much like being a high-status primate in any group: the creatures beneath you in the pecking order watch every move you make – and so they know a lot more about you than you know about them.”

Knows Moving Order Watches Groups Creatures Boss Primates Pecking Order

Author:Bob Sutton

“When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least they do not have ulterior motives.”

Men Feels Sometimes Careers Motive Vocation Nostalgic Primates Ulterior Motive

Author:Albert Camus

“Looking back now on the whole sexual scene we can see that our species has remained much more loyal to its basic biological urges than we might at first imagine. Its primate sexual system with carnivore modifications has survived all the fantastic technological advances remarkably well.”

Firsts Wells Whole Might Sex Imagine Scene Species Fantastic Urges Loyal Looking Back Technological Survived Primates Modification Carnivores

Book:The illustrated naked ape: a zoologist's study of the human animal

Source: The illustrated naked ape: a zoologist's study of the human animal

“First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated.”

Men Firsts Running White Higher Backgrounds Educated Privileged Sanctuary Primates

Author:Russell Banks

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

Social Primates

Author:Jonathan Haidt

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