Man's greatness does not consist in being different from the animals that share the earth with him, but in being...conscious of things of which his environment has no inkling. — Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald Copy Share Image
These are the experiences I wish to record in this book, which should really be called The Diary of a Palaeontologist. But in committing… — Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald Copy Share Image
Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of his desire for knowledge. And the answers he received to the questions, "Where do I come from?", "What is man?", although they made him poorer by a few illusions, gave him in compensation a knowledge of his past… — Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald Copy Share
It is the large brain capacity which allows man to live as a human being, enjoy taxes, canned salmon, television, and the atomic bomb. — Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald Copy Share Image
Man's greatness does not consist in being different from the animals that share the earth with him, but in being...conscious of things of which… — Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald Copy Share Image
