"Man is not distinguished from [the animals] by……" — Ernst Haeckel
"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 higher degree of psychic activity, a superior stage of development."
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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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As our mother earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but…
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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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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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