"Ontogeny re-capitulates phylogeny." by Ernst Haeckel
"Ontogeny re-capitulates phylogeny."
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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…
- 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…
- Civilization and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.
- Man is not above nature, but in nature.
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