Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?

I shouldn't have named the chimps. It wasn't scientific. I didn't know. I knew nothing. And worse sin of all was that I was ascribing to them emotions like happiness, sadness and so forth.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

every individual can make a difference ... if we continue to leave decision making to the so-called decision makers, things will never change.

Cultural speciation had been crippling to human moral and spiritual growth. It had hindered freedom of thought, limited our thinking, imprisoned us in the cultures into which we had been born. . . . These cultural mind prisons. . . . Cultural speciation was clearly a barrier to world peace. So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the ‘global village’ we would propagate prejudice and ignorance.

You have to realise that touching is a real violation of personal space.

In a very unscientific statement, I feel that there's been a disconnect between this clever brain and the heart.