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Men Quotes by Ernst Haeckel
- An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primaeval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnished according to the fundamental law of biogeny…
- It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes no part of general education.…
- Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has its origin in…
- As our mother earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain of protoplasm…
- Man is not above nature, but in nature.
- Man is not distinguished from [the animals] by a special kind of soul, or by any peculiar and exclusive psychic function, but only by a…
- Mental differences between the lowest men and the animals are less than those between the lowest and the highest man.
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