A Quote by Arthur Koestler

The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo.

Arthur Koestler

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Ape Because Between Embryo Found Link Man Missing Never Will

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Arthur Koestler
Hungarian - Writer
September 5, 1905 - March 1, 1983

I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.

Konrad Lorenz

Between the finite and the infinite The missing link of Love has left a void. Supply the link, and earth with Heaven will join In one continued chain of endless life.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with that of a chimpanzee that paleontologists for years hunted for a half-ape, half-human skeleton that would provide a fossil link between the human and the ape.

Jane Goodall

Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings.

Konrad Lorenz

Paleontologists do not have to search for famous "missing link" from which humans supposedly came, and current great apes. This link is simply the socialist - because he has both monkey genes.

Janusz Korwin-Mikke

Yet man does recognise himself [as an animal]. But I ask you and the whole world for a generic differentia between man and ape which conforms to the principles of natural history, I certainly know of none... If I were to call man ape or vice versa, I should bring down all the theologians on my head. But perhaps I should still do it according to the rules of science.

Carl Linnaeus

The missing link between animals and a truly humane mankind is man himself, who does not yet see himself as a part of the world, claiming it instead for himself.

Michael Fox

That's why I've never thought of retiring because I do it all the time whether on the stage or off. I found that in a precarious situation, a smile is the shortest distance between people. When one needs to reach out for sympathy or a link with people, what better way is there?

Victor Borge

I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!

Abraham Maslow

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state as we may hope, than the Caucasian and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.

Charles Darwin

The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man.