We're still just the world's premium brand of ape.
Man is an ape with possibilities.
Not a superman who stumbles, but an ape with makeshift manners in whose nickel-plated jungles roam mechanical bananas.
There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a mask, it can display itself suddenly with terrifying effect.
One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time.
Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
Almost all theological thought is anthropocentric and I just cannot buy into the anthropocentric ideology. Basically we're a bunch of conceited apes.
When I first was offered the role on Rise [of the Planet of the Apes], I always played Caesar as a human being within ape skin.
A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE!
Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.
The feat represents immense achievement for the neotenic ape, species Homo sapiens. But behind this lie twooldattributesoftheapetribalismandinquisitiveness.
It's clearly possible for a something to acquire higher intelligence than its ancestors: we evolved to be smarter than our ape-like ancestors, and Einstein was smarter than his parents.
The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.
I call the notion that we are nothing but killer apes the Beethoven fallacy. Beethoven was disorganized and messy, and yet his music is the epitome of order.
If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?
People still don't get how astounding Darwinism is. People think what shocked everybody was that Charles Darwin seemed to be saying we had descended from apes.
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state as we may hope, than the Caucasian and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.
Darwin was wrong. Man's still an ape
A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.
It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes.