Primates Quotes

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.

The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our needs - is contrary to our scientific understanding of evolution and, of course, to the fossil record, which shows the existence of non-human primates and other animals millions of years before there were any human beings at all.

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

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

Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.

Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.

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.