Desmond Morris Quotes


We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.


Citations

Morris, Desmond. The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal. McGraw-Hill, 1967, p. 185.

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Desmond Morris
Desmond Morris
  • Born: January 24, 1928
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Zoologist Ethologist

Desmond John Morris FLS hon. caus. is an English zoologist, ethologist and surrealist painter, as well as a popular author in human sociobiology. He is known for his 1967 book The Naked Ape, and for his television programmes such as Zoo Time.