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.
People are bloody ignorant apes.
It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with tender embraces.
We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.
Not a superman who stumbles, but an ape with makeshift manners in whose nickel-plated jungles roam mechanical bananas.
I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!
The problem of the apes is not a shortage of money, it is a shortage of strategy. Let us devote our minds. . . the one thing we have more of than other apes. . . and let's secure their future.
I would rather be a transformed ape than a degenerate son of Adam.
A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.
We can no longer communicate with the apes by direct language, nor can we understand, without special study, their modes of communication which we have long since replaced by more elaborate forms. But it is at least presumable that they could still detect in our speech, at least when it is public and elaborate, the underlying tone values with which it began. Thus if we could take a gibbon ape to a college public lecture, he would not understand it, but he would "get a good deal of it. " This is all the students get anyway.
They worry one another like mastiffs, scrambling for rank and pay like apes for nuts.
The library is what keeps us a step ahead of the apes.
If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?
Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes.
Man is more ape than many of the apes.
Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape. More specifically he was forty, fat and shabby and worked for the local council. Curiously enough, though he didn't know it, he was also a direct male-line descendant of Genghis Khan, though intervening generations and racial mixing had so juggled his genes that he had no discernible Mongoloid characteristics, and the only vestiges left in Mr L Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats.
On corsets: I said, You have got to be kidding. I am an ape and yet I am still expected to squeeze myself into one of those damn things.
I mean, I'm not hoping for the apes and the monolith. I'm hoping for controlled chaos to assist us.
The pace at which science has progressed has been too fast for human behaviour to adapt to it. As I said we are still apes. A part of our brain is still a paleo-brain and many of the reactions come from our fight or flight instinct. As long as this part of the brain can take over control the rational part of the brain (we will face these problems).
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.