Science is not inherently good.

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.

If the novel is dead, I'm a necrophiliac.

There are many paths to the truth. We need only the courage to tread our own path, no one else's.

Until you take the first step forward, failure remains reassuringly impossible.

Tell me I'm not crazy, " He said. I couldn't do that. I was nowhere near sane enough at the moment to advise anyone else on rational behavior.

His muscles flexed under his clothes, holding me, leading me. Never letting me stray far.

You're not funny and nobody likes you!

Men are much more agressive with their advances.

Even a bad idea executed is better than a good idea undone.

Also, I didn’t trust any guy who used more styling products than I did.

When I was a kid I got no respect. I told my mother, I'm gonna run away from home. She said, On your mark.