Jane Goodall

"I wanted to come as close to talking to animals as I could – to be like Dr Dolittle. I wanted to move among them without fear, like Tarzan"

- Jane Goodall

Insight: Jane Goodall's research included the discovery of chimpanzees using tools for catching termites.

Insight: Jane Goodall did not follow the academic way of studying animals - she gave them names instead of numbers, and believed that chimpanzees each possessed unique personalities.

Insight: Jane Goodall was not trained in the rules of science at the time, and through this she was able to be creative and allowed her to understand the chimpanzees she was studying on a deeper level.

"Staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back at me. I felt very much that I was learning about fellow beings, capable of joy, sorrow, and jealousy."

- Jane Goodall

Insight: Jane Goodall believes that her lack of university education enabled her to approach her research without being preconditioned.

"We have designed a rocket that has been up to Mars and a robot crawled about it, and think how you and I are talking now. That’s the big difference, and how stupid it is that the most intellectual creature to ever walk the planet is busily destroying its only home."

- Jane Goodall

Insight: Jane understands that chimpanzees are far more intelligent than we used to think, but see that the complex language and words we use as the biggest difference between humans and chimpanzees.

Insight: Through thousands of hours of observation, Jane Good was able to transform the way that we view nature, and ourselves.

Insight:Curiosity is the gateway to heightened awareness.

Insight:When Jane Goodall was five years old she wanted to understand how big eggs came out of a chicken, so spent hours in a chicken coop to wait to see it happen.

Insight:When Jane Goodall was hired by Louis Leakey she did not have a college degree, she was hired for her curiosity and observational skills.

Insight:Curiosity led Jane Goodall to discover that chimpanzees make tools, have emotions, and can be vicious as well as caring - she altered our understanding of primates, and changed the way research is done.

Insight:The way that we view the world matters - we can do it with kindness, or with coldness.

Insight:No scientist had observed primates through the lens of kindness, appreciation, curiosity until Jane Goodall - this enabled her to get closer than ever before to them and have a unique window into their world.

"Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help."

- Jane Goodall

Insight: If we want to be exceptional we must first cultivate the skill of observation.

Insight: Jane Goodall is pioneer in science, ascribing minds and personalities to the chimpanzees she studied.

Insight: Jane Goodall anthropomorphised the chimpanzees - going against ingrained scientific methods to number the "subjects" and hold no emotional attachment.

"The longer I spent on my own, the more I became one with the magic forest world that was now my home... Inanimate objects developed their own identities and, like my favourite saint, Francis of Assisi, I named them and greeted them as friends. 'Good morning, Peak,' I would say as I arrived there each morning."

- Jane Goodall

Insight: Jane Goodall began to develop a deeper relationship with everything around her in nature.

Insight: Jane Goodall believed that it was possible to do good science and have a deep connection with nature.

"How sad that so many people seem to think that science and religion are mutually exclusive"

- Jane Goodall

Insight: Jane Goodall celebrates the ability of the human mind to both understand the natural world, and experience deep connection through mystery and awe.

Insight: Jane Goodall believed that it was possible to do good science and have a deep connection with nature.

"How sad it would be ... if our left brains were utterly to dominate the right so that logic and reason triumphed over intuition and alienated us absolutely from our innermost being, from our hearts, our souls."

- Jane Goodall

"There is one facial expression which, more than any other has dramatic signal value— the full closed grin. When this expression suddenly appears, it is as though the whole face has been split by a gash of white teeth set in bright pink gums. It is often given silently, in response to an unexpected and frightening stimulus. When an individual turns to his companions with his face transfigured by this horrifying grin, it usually evokes an instant fear response in the beholders."

- Jane Goodall

Insight: Monkeys, apes, and humans use orofacial gestures as their main natural way to communicate.

Insight: Lip and tongue sounds of monkeys persist in humans - they form syllables in speech.

Insight: On 7 January 1974, Jane Goodall discovered violence among chimp groups in Gombe National Park, Tanzania - something previously believed to be uniquely human.

Insight: Jane Goodall describes chimps doing a wild dance near a waterfall.

Insight: Jane Goodall discovered that chimpanzees chewed up leaves and trimmed the branches of trees to make tools for catching insects. It was previously believed that only humans made tools.

Insight: Jane Goodall observed that if lower ranked animals in a group spot food, they will not approach if the higher ranked individuals can see, and will wait until they are alone.

Insight: Jane Goodall first observed chimpanzees ability to make tools when it was previously believed that only humans did this.

Insight: Jane Goodall documented in her memoir that she had seen no evidence that primates have the capacity for unselfish love, and believes this is unique to humans.

Insight: The main difference between humans and primates may not be so much our rational faculties, but rather our desire and capacity for deep love.

Insight: Through intense absorption of a particular field over a long period of time, masters understand all the components of what they are studying - beyond intellect they internalise everything and it becomes intuitive.

Insight: Jane Goodall is an example of a master in her field - studying and living among chimpanzees in East Africa - she was able to think like a chimpanzee and see elements of the social dynamics that no other researcher had before.

Insight: Jane Goodall made discoveries that forever altered our perception of chimpanzees and other animals.

Insight: Masters gain an intuitive feel for the whole of their field.

Insight: Many science researchers criticised Jane Goodall for naming the chimpanzees she studied, and believe believe her that she had discovered chimpanzees using tools until she showed them video evidence.

Insight: Jane Goodall changed the way people have studied and viewed animals - seeing individuals with unique personalities and capabilities.

Insight: Number research animals creates an emotional disconnect for the researcher from their subjects, in ways that the researchers can justify cruel treatments.

Insight: In the 1960s Jane Goodall made the discovery that chimpanzees make tools to catch termites.

Insight: After Jane Goodall's discoveries, the classical definition of culture no longer only applied to humans - most anthropologists were not happy with this revelation.

Insight: Jane Goodall went to study chimpanzees in Tanzania in 1960, and has redefined conservation and been a role model and leader for women in the field, and inspired young people to get involved in conservation.

Insight: Naturalistic is a type of intelligence that enables people to see nature in all its complexities. Jane Goodall is an example of this type of intelligence.

Insight: Jane Goodall discovered behaviour in chimpanzees that we can only describe as empathic - male chimps when attacked will run to male companions for comfort, or their mother - and hold her hand.

Insight: Jane Goodall first discovered the chimpanzee behaviour of "ant-dipping" in Gombe National Park - using stick tools to reach ants in their nest.

Insight: Jane Goodall first discovered hunting and intergroup warfare in chimpanzees, termite fishing using tools.