"Mental differences between the lowest men and the……" — Ernst Haeckel

"Mental differences between the lowest men and the animals are less than those between the lowest and the highest man."

— Ernst Haeckel

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23 Quotes by Ernst Haeckel

Ernst Haeckel has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primaeval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnished according to…
It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes…
Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of "being and becoming!" That is the broad lesson…
The succession of individuals, connected by reproduction and belonging to a species, makes it possible for the specific form itself…
In the course of individual development, inherited characters appear, in general, earlier than adaptive ones, and the earlier a certain…
The nucleus has to take care of the inheritance of the heritable characters, while the surrounding cytoplasm is concerned with…
Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other.…
As our mother earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but…
Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the…
There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared 'European war'... will become the first world war…
Ontogeny re-capitulates phylogeny.
Civilization and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.

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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will… — Francis of Assisi
People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the… — David Attenborough
Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know… — David Attenborough
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual… — David Attenborough
I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how… — David Attenborough
I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I… — David Attenborough
If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in… — David Attenborough
Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware… — David Attenborough

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