1817 quotes by dutch authors for you to enjoy

Science is not inherently good. Frans de Waal

Good Science Inherently

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

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

Religions have a strong binding function and a cohesive element. They emphasize the primacy of the community as opposed to the individual, and they also help set one community apart from another that doesn't share their beliefs. Frans de Waal

Strong Community Religions Individual Share Primacy Emphasize Also Another Opposed Apart Help Function Element Beliefs Binding Cohesive Set

The primate laugh is given in playful contexts, and as such has a strong similarity to the human laugh. Frans de Waal

Strong Laugh Similarity Given Human Playful

Understanding the need for religion is a far superior goal to bashing it. Frans de Waal

Religion Superior Understanding Goal Far Need

There are many reasons for kindness, and religion is just one of them. Frans de Waal

Kindness Religion Just Just One Them Reasons Many

Exclusive homosexuality is not very common in nature. Frans de Waal

Nature Exclusive Very Common Homosexuality

Scientists are supposed to study animals in a totally objective fashion, similar to the way we inspect a rock or measure the circumference of a tree trunk. Emotions are not to interfere with the assessment. The animal-rights movement capitalizes on this perception, depicting scientists as devoid of compassion. Frans de Waal

Fashion Emotions Compassion Perception Animals Tree Way Circumference Totally Objective Similar Study Supposed Devoid Rock Scientists Trunk Movement Depicting Interfere Measure Assessment

Closeness to animals creates the desire to understand them, and not just a little piece of them, but the whole animal. It makes us wonder what goes on in their heads even though we fully realize that the answer can only be approximated. Frans de Waal

Animal Animals Though Only Heads Piece Makes Understand Answer Wonder Closeness Goes Just Little Them Realize Us Creates Little Piece Fully Whole Even Desire

One thing bothered me as a student. In the 1960s, human behavior was totally off limits for the biologist. There was animal behavior, then there was a long time nothing, after which came human behavior as a totally separate category best left to a different group of scientists. Frans de Waal

Time Best Me Animal Behavior Long Long Time Nothing Group One Thing Totally Bothered Student Category Limits Scientists Came Off Left Human Human Behavior Different After Which Then Separate Thing Biologist

It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with tender embraces. Frans de Waal

Other Wild Say Consoling Distressed Embraces Tender Spontaneous Well Well Known Known Offer Against Ape Companions Each Assistance Defending

Education Satire Entertainment Culture Made Example Animals Propaganda Examples Purposes Over For Example Sort Duck Cover George George Orwell Forget Donald Mickey Mouse Walt Walt Disney Human Being Laid Us Disney Popular Popular Culture Ills Population Livestock Societal Orwell

I was too restless as a boy to sit through an entire mass. It was akin to aversion training. I looked at it like a puppet show with a totally predictable story line. The only aspect I really liked was the music. Frans de Waal

Music Training Sit Too Puppet Puppet Show Restless Entire Totally Only Through Mass Like Liked Looked Boy Line Predictable Story Really Aspect Aversion Show

We undertook a huge internal transformation to sharpen our customer focus, step up innovation, improve productivity to ensure competitiveness, change our culture, and simplify our ways of working so that our size and scale became a competitive advantage rather than a bureaucratic hangover after years of diversification. Frans van Houten

Change Culture Innovation Focus Transformation Our Ways Ensure Scale Diversification Rather Simplify Step Advantage Sharpen Became Years Huge Up Than Improve Bureaucratic Hangover Size After Customer Working Productivity Internal Competitive Competitive Advantage Competitiveness

Time may not be on our side, but innovation is. Frans van Houten

Time Innovation Side Our May

The traditional way that society looks at healthcare is to let people get terribly sick and then have an emergency room to take care of them and spend a lot of money on acute care for people who would have been kept out of hospital in the first place if they had had a lifestyle change. Frans van Houten

Change People Money Care First Society Sick Spend Way Out Would Emergency Emergency Room Hospital Lifestyle Take Had Take Care Looks Terribly First Place Healthcare Traditional Been Traditional Way Lot Get Place Room Them Then Who Acute Kept

Certain product categories become less attractive for us because, as they become mature, they become low-cost, and hence, there is less to invent. There is less to invent in a television, whereas in heath technology, there is a lot to invent. So we wanted to put our innovative power to work where it really matters. Frans van Houten

Work Technology Invent Power Become Matters Innovative Our Television Put Categories Attractive Because Lot Mature Heath Where Wanted Whereas Low-Cost Us Really Certain Product Less Hence

Our health underpins our happiness and is a foundation of economic advancement. Frans van Houten

Happiness Health Our Economic Advancement Foundation

Engagement with young people is always a refreshing break with routine. It's also a reminder of how we need to constantly keep our thinking agile and unencumbered by traditional rules. Frans van Houten

Even though we live in a fast-changing world with short term-ism all around, it requires years of determination to transform a company and structurally reap the rewards. Innovation companies need to set their sights on solving unmet needs - but this approach requires focus and long-term tenacity. Frans van Houten

Needs Innovation Determination World Focus Reap Live Approach Sights Though Solving All-Around Tenacity Long-Term Around Years Short Rewards Transform Requires Companies Company Even Need Set

If we are to ensure that healthcare remains affordable and widely available for future generations, we need to radically rethink how we provide and manage it - in collaboration with key health system partners - and apply the technology that can help achieve these changes. Frans van Houten

Future Health Technology Key Achieve Changes Collaboration Ensure System Future Generations Remains Rethink Generations Partners Healthcare How Provide Affordable Manage Available Help Radically Widely Apply Need

If we are to ensure that health care remains affordable and widely available for future generations, we need to rethink radically how we provide and manage it. Frans van Houten

Future Health Care Ensure Future Generations Remains Rethink Generations Health Care How Provide Affordable Manage Available Radically Widely Need

Our myopic focus on producing and consuming as cheaply as possible has created a linear economy in which objects are briefly used and then discarded as waste. Frans van Houten

Focus Our Possible Objects Myopic Consuming Cheaply Economy Discarded Linear Which Then Created Producing Used Waste

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