Here's the new thread for posting quotes, with the usual rules:
Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be voted up/down separately. (If they are strongly related, reply to your own comments. If strongly ordered, then go ahead and post them together.)
Do not quote yourself
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No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.
Uh, the reason to say "humans are apes" is because doing so turns out to have useful predictive power. That being the actual point of the original quote.
Here's the new thread for posting quotes, with the usual rules: