To endow animals with human emotions has long been a scientific taboo. But if we do not, we risk missing something fundamental, about both animals and us.

The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?

If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, … a sense of fairness, and the other one is empathy and compassion.

Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes - he didn't go far enough. We are apes in every way, from our long arms and tailless bodies to our habits and temperament.

Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and repulsive behavior.

We are territorial, power-hungry and even more brutal than chimpanzees.

The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing politicians with those poor, underestimated creatures.

We are by far the most contradictory of all primates. An animal with this much internal conflict has never lived on this earth.

Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature.

You need to indoctrinate empathy out of people in order to arrive at extreme capitalist positions.

If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.

I climb mountains, while you keep sinking in sand.

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Content and Riches seldom meet together, Riches take thou, contentment I had rather.

I'm not into weapons. I'm not into cars. I'm not into explosions. I'm scared of all of that.

Always forwards, never backwards.

I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.

I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.

O my mind,Make your speech egoless.Then everyoneWill appreciate, admire and adore you.