Opposable Thumbs Quotes

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

If cats understood technology and had opposable thumbs, they'd rule the world.

Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging.

'The Daily Beast' competes in the highly Darwinian media world filled with hyper-smart, highly adaptive, tool-using people with opposable thumbs.

Those monkey-thumbs were meant for dogs. Give me my thumbs, you fu**ing monkeys!

Human beings evolved opposable thumbs for a reason. The sense of reward you get from making something with your hands can't be earned any other way. It's obvious that people learn faster from 'hands-on' experience than they do watching someone else do something.

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward.

When I return to the world, I will be a man. I will walk among you. I will lick my lips with my small, dexterous tongue. I will shake hands with other men, grasping firmly with my opposable thumbs. And I will teach all people that I know. And when I see a man or a woman or a child in trouble, I will extend my hand, both metaphorically and physically. I will offer my hand. To him. To her. To you. To the world. I will be a good citizen, a good partner in the endeaver of life that we all share.

Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.

Beast had once informed me that humans were hunters only by luck and because they had opposable thumbs.

There's a good case to be made that having fun is a key evolutionary advantage right next to opposable thumbs in terms of importance. Without that little chemical twist in our brains that makes us enjoy learning new things, we might be more like the sharks and ants of the world.