Quotes by : Frans de Waal

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

I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we'd known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee....

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,....

The initial animosity between divergent approaches can be overcome if we realize that each has something....

We have a tendency to describe the human condition in lofty terms, such as a quest for freedom or striving....

Even the staunchest atheist growing up in Western society cannot avoid having absorbed the basic tenets....

The term 'alpha female' originated in my field of animal behavior, but has acquired new meaning. It refers....