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![Frans De Waal quotes: The enemy of science is not religion ... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma. Frans De Waal quotes: The enemy of science is not religion ... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-1909404.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: Denmark has incredibly low crime rates, and parents feel that what a child needs most is frisk luft, or fresh air. The Frans De Waal quotes: Denmark has incredibly low crime rates, and parents feel that what a child needs most is frisk luft, or fresh air. The](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-2179980.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: The common argument that men are naturally polygamous and women naturally monogamous is as full of holes as Swiss cheese. Frans De Waal quotes: The common argument that men are naturally polygamous and women naturally monogamous is as full of holes as Swiss cheese.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-1858178.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines. Frans De Waal quotes: There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-803617.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: Drosophila has long been our main workhorse in genetics, yielding insight in the relation between chromosomes and genes. Frans De Waal quotes: Drosophila has long been our main workhorse in genetics, yielding insight in the relation between chromosomes and genes.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-48985.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: There is so much resistance to the idea of animal culture that one cannot escape the impression that it is an idea whose time is come. Frans De Waal quotes: There is so much resistance to the idea of animal culture that one cannot escape the impression that it is an idea whose time is come.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-1992435.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: Food-deprived chickens that were not particularly good at noticing the finer distinctions of a maze task.5 Frans De Waal quotes: Food-deprived chickens that were not particularly good at noticing the finer distinctions of a maze task.5](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-678184.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: The role of inequity in society is grossly underestimated. Inequity is not good for your health, basically. Frans De Waal quotes: The role of inequity in society is grossly underestimated. Inequity is not good for your health, basically.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-1131312.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: It wasn't God who introduced us to morality; rather, it was the other way around. God was put into place to help us live the way we felt we ought Frans De Waal quotes: It wasn't God who introduced us to morality; rather, it was the other way around. God was put into place to help us live the way we felt we ought](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-1927487.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: We need to separate the process of evolution - which is, indeed, a self-serving process - and the actual motivations of animals. Frans De Waal quotes: We need to separate the process of evolution - which is, indeed, a self-serving process - and the actual motivations of animals.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-2100082.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: American naturalist William Morton Wheeler made the English term popular as the study of "habits and instincts."11 Frans De Waal quotes: American naturalist William Morton Wheeler made the English term popular as the study of "habits and instincts."11](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-400769.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: There has been so much underestimating of animal cognition that to perhaps overestimate it, as I probably do, is probably a healthy reaction. Frans De Waal quotes: There has been so much underestimating of animal cognition that to perhaps overestimate it, as I probably do, is probably a healthy reaction.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-440858.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: We justify the inequalities by saying some people are just better and smarter than others and the strong should survive and the poor can die off. Frans De Waal quotes: We justify the inequalities by saying some people are just better and smarter than others and the strong should survive and the poor can die off.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-2086941.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: In other words, what is salient to us - such as our own facial features - may not be salient to other species. Frans De Waal quotes: In other words, what is salient to us - such as our own facial features - may not be salient to other species.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-1334225.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: People want to work with somebody who feels shame, who worries about the perceptions of others. Dishonesty is something we don't like in others. Frans De Waal quotes: People want to work with somebody who feels shame, who worries about the perceptions of others. Dishonesty is something we don't like in others.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-828294.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: While the matriarch operates on the basis of knowledge, the rest of the herd operates on the basis of trust. Frans De Waal quotes: While the matriarch operates on the basis of knowledge, the rest of the herd operates on the basis of trust.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-216258.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: Male chimpanzees have an extraordinarily strong drive for dominance. They're constantly jockeying for position. Frans De Waal quotes: Male chimpanzees have an extraordinarily strong drive for dominance. They're constantly jockeying for position.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-1567724.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: If faith makes people buy an entire package of myths and values without asking too many questions, scientists are only slightly better. Frans De Waal quotes: If faith makes people buy an entire package of myths and values without asking too many questions, scientists are only slightly better.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-219908.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: 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. Frans De Waal quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-2076033.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: This is more like the scientists I know. Authority outweighs evidence, at least for as long as the authority lives. Frans De Waal quotes: This is more like the scientists I know. Authority outweighs evidence, at least for as long as the authority lives.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-1169311.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: In fact, it has been proposed that absolute neuron count, regardless of brain or body size, best predicts a species' mental powers.61 Frans De Waal quotes: In fact, it has been proposed that absolute neuron count, regardless of brain or body size, best predicts a species' mental powers.61](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-1784753.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: If both parties have a stake in the other, the chances of them killing each other are going to be reduced. Frans De Waal quotes: If both parties have a stake in the other, the chances of them killing each other are going to be reduced.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-1974472.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: Morality, after all, has nothing to do with selflessness. On the contrary, self-interest is precisely the basis of the categorical imperative. Frans De Waal quotes: Morality, after all, has nothing to do with selflessness. On the contrary, self-interest is precisely the basis of the categorical imperative.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-517082.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: Would anyone test the memory of human children by throwing them into a swimming pool to see if they remember where to get out? Yet Frans De Waal quotes: Would anyone test the memory of human children by throwing them into a swimming pool to see if they remember where to get out? Yet](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-2019820.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: 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? Frans De Waal quotes: 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?](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-503683.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: Rather than reflecting an immutable human nature, morals are closely tied to the way we organize ourselves. Frans De Waal quotes: Rather than reflecting an immutable human nature, morals are closely tied to the way we organize ourselves.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-420834.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: One aspect we might focus on during this moratorium is an alternative to overly cerebral approaches. Frans De Waal quotes: One aspect we might focus on during this moratorium is an alternative to overly cerebral approaches.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-1920724.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: In a world divided by chimpophiles and bonobophiles, we all had a good laugh when Stephen peeled his banana. (62) Frans De Waal quotes: In a world divided by chimpophiles and bonobophiles, we all had a good laugh when Stephen peeled his banana. (62)](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-1974733.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: There are so many ways to account for negative outcomes that it is safer to doubt one's methods before doubting one's subjects. Frans De Waal quotes: There are so many ways to account for negative outcomes that it is safer to doubt one's methods before doubting one's subjects.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-1989494.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it. Frans De Waal quotes: Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-369747.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: We are by far the most contradictory of all primates. An animal with this much internal conflict has never lived on this earth. Frans De Waal quotes: We are by far the most contradictory of all primates. An animal with this much internal conflict has never lived on this earth.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-2009127.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: A chimpanzee who is really gearing up for a fight doesn't waste time with gestures but just goes ahead and attacks. Frans De Waal quotes: A chimpanzee who is really gearing up for a fight doesn't waste time with gestures but just goes ahead and attacks.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-1851282.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: When someone brutally kills someone else, we call him "animalistic." But we consider ourselves "human" when we give to the poor. Frans De Waal quotes: When someone brutally kills someone else, we call him "animalistic." But we consider ourselves "human" when we give to the poor.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-107796.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities. Frans De Waal quotes: Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-107007.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: We would much rather blame nature for what we don't like in ourselves than credit it for what we do like. Frans De Waal quotes: We would much rather blame nature for what we don't like in ourselves than credit it for what we do like.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-2127941.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: Conventions are often surrounded with the solemn language of morality, but in fact they have little to do with it. Frans De Waal quotes: Conventions are often surrounded with the solemn language of morality, but in fact they have little to do with it.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-81832.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: Cognition is the mental transformation of sensory input into knowledge about the environment and the flexible application of this knowledge. Frans De Waal quotes: Cognition is the mental transformation of sensory input into knowledge about the environment and the flexible application of this knowledge.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-987825.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: Would we have evolved the same technical skills and intelligence without these supremely versatile appendages? Frans De Waal quotes: Would we have evolved the same technical skills and intelligence without these supremely versatile appendages?](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-983869.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: The primate laugh is given in playful contexts, and as such has a strong similarity to the human laugh. Frans De Waal quotes: The primate laugh is given in playful contexts, and as such has a strong similarity to the human laugh.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-1197793.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: Armies are a purely human invention. Most soldiers who go to war nowadays don't even do it because they're inherently aggressive. Frans De Waal quotes: Armies are a purely human invention. Most soldiers who go to war nowadays don't even do it because they're inherently aggressive.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-1246979.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: There is little evidence that other animals judge the appropriateness of actions that do not directly affect themselves. Frans De Waal quotes: There is little evidence that other animals judge the appropriateness of actions that do not directly affect themselves.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-789486.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: Ironically, torture requires empathy, too, in the sense that one cannot deliberately inflict pain without realizing what is painful. Frans De Waal quotes: Ironically, torture requires empathy, too, in the sense that one cannot deliberately inflict pain without realizing what is painful.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-1368620.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: Charles Darwin himself had written a whole tome about the parallels between human and animal emotional expressions. Frans De Waal quotes: Charles Darwin himself had written a whole tome about the parallels between human and animal emotional expressions.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-1883449.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that. Frans De Waal quotes: Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-1499611.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: Their earlier poor performance had had more to do with the way they were tested than with their mental powers. Elephants Frans De Waal quotes: Their earlier poor performance had had more to do with the way they were tested than with their mental powers. Elephants](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-590830.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: In other words, both macaques and rats volunteer for tests only when they feel confident, suggesting that they know their own knowledge. Frans De Waal quotes: In other words, both macaques and rats volunteer for tests only when they feel confident, suggesting that they know their own knowledge.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-538260.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: Cognitive evolution is marked by many peaks of specialization. The ecology of each species is key. The Frans De Waal quotes: Cognitive evolution is marked by many peaks of specialization. The ecology of each species is key. The](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-1775053.jpg)
![Frans De Waal quotes: In the same way that humans have a "handy" intelligence, which we share with other primates, elephants may have a "trunky" one. There Frans De Waal quotes: In the same way that humans have a "handy" intelligence, which we share with other primates, elephants may have a "trunky" one. There](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/frans-de-waal-quotes-1782992.jpg)
Top 92 wise famous quotes and sayings by Frans De Waal
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