Quotes by : Frans de Waal

Without agreement on rank and a certain respect for authority there can be no great sensitivity to social....

Along with people in other creative professions, such as artists and musicians, many scientists experience....

It is said that man is wolf to man. I find this very unfair to wolves.

Having escaped the Dark Ages in which animals were mere stimulus-response machines, we are free to contemplate....

The book of nature is like the Bible: Everyone reads into it what they want, from tolerance to intolerance,....

Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging....

If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks....

Friedrich Nietzsche, who famously gave us the ‘God is dead’ phrase was interested in the sources....

If you look at human society, it is very easy, of course, to compare our warfare and territoriality with....

The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is....