"As our mother earth is a mere speck……" — Ernst Haeckel
"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 in the perishable framework of organic nature. [This] clearly indicates the true place of man in nature, but it dissipates the prevalent illusion of man's supreme importance and the arrogance with which he sets himself apart from the illimitable universe and exalts himself to the position of its most valuable element."
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Ernst Haeckel
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23 Quotes by Ernst Haeckel
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An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primaeval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnished according to…
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It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes…
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Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of "being and becoming!" That is the broad lesson…
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The succession of individuals, connected by reproduction and belonging to a species, makes it possible for the specific form itself…
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In the course of individual development, inherited characters appear, in general, earlier than adaptive ones, and the earlier a certain…
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The nucleus has to take care of the inheritance of the heritable characters, while the surrounding cytoplasm is concerned with…
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Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other.…
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Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the…
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There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared 'European war'... will become the first world war…
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Ontogeny re-capitulates phylogeny.
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Civilization and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.
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Man is not above nature, but in nature.
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