Humans are often in a hurry, animals seldom are.Frans de Waal
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.Frans de Waal
What seems natural one day may seem utterly arbitrary the next, after we have taken to heart the perspective of other species.Frans de Waal
If we rethink our place in natural order, not as above other species but as part of the animal kingdom, we come to very different conclusions.Frans de Waal
The alternative to nature and nurture is not eureka but interaction, dynamic and lifelong.Frans de Waal
If culture were uniquely human, we would expect to find it in only a single species. But if other animals were cultural, too, wouldn’t we see variation among them?Frans de Waal
As humans, we fail to appreciate how much our own social intelligence depends on our bodies until we look at robots.Frans de Waal
By failing to look at animals as they really are—and realize that every species sees the cosmos differently—we flatter ourselves.Frans de Waal
The more we shed a human-centered vision and replace it with the broader notion of animal ethnicity, enriched by each individual’s personality, the more stunning the variety and richness of life out there.Frans de Waal
We ask why humans are so different from all others, as if we have reached the pinnacle of, and therefore own, natural evolution. The question is immensely arrogant: it both overrates us and underrates them.Frans de Waal