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War is evitable if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits.

~Frans De Waal

Topics: Benefits Conditions Costs Higher Making Than War

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There is little evidence that other animals judge the appropriateness of actions that do not directly affect themselves.

~Frans De Waal

Topics: Actions Affect Animals Directly Evidence Judge Little Other Themselves

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The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

~Frans De Waal

Topics: Curiosity Dogma Endless Enemy Forms Reflection Religion Science Shapes Thought True

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There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines.

~Frans De Waal

Topics: Animals Biology Humans Instinct Long Long Tradition Machines Pure Thought Tradition Western Whereas

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Chimps don't have language. Humans actively instruct others about how things should be done. Chimpanzees probably pick up cultural traditions by observation.

~Frans De Waal

Topics: About Actively Cultural Done How Humans Language Observation Others Pick Should Things Traditions Up

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There are beautiful examples of art done by chimpanzees in human care.

~Frans De Waal

Topics: Art Beautiful Care Done Examples Human

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Following rules is, of course, the reason the dog is man's best friend is because the dog follows rules, and they actually do experiments on that, is that how well certain breeds of dogs follow rules, and how much they internalize them. And so many hierarchical animals, obviously they follow rules.

~Frans De Waal

Topics: Actually Animals Because Best Best Friend Breeds Certain Course Dog Dogs Experiments Follow Following Follows Friend How How Much Man Many Much Obviously Reason Rules Them Well

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Sometimes I read about someone saying with great authority that animals have no intentions and no feelings, and I wonder, 'Doesn't this guy have a dog?'

~Frans De Waal

Topics: About Animals Authority Dog Feelings Great Guy Intentions Read Saying Someone Sometimes Wonder I Wonder

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In Africa, we have the bush meat trade, which means that, on a very large scale, animals are being killed in the forests and sold in the cities as a luxury food.

~Frans De Waal

Topics: Africa Animals Being Bush Cities Food Forests Large Luxury Means Meat Scale Sold Trade Very Which

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Chimpanzees have very strong preferences and aversions that are completely personality-linked. The people who are unsuccessful in working with chimpanzees are those who take this personally.

~Frans De Waal

Topics: People Personally Preferences Strong Take Those Unsuccessful Very Who Working

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Biography

Nationality: Dutch

Type: Scientist

Born: October 29th, 1948

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