Ernst Haeckel Quotes

#1. Natural selection rendered evolution scientifically intelligible: it was this more than anything else which convinced professional biologists like Sir Joseph Hooker, T. H. Huxley and Ernst Haeckel.

Charles Darwin

#2. Man is not above nature, but in nature.

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#3. The cell never acts; it reacts.

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#4. Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.

Philip Sidney

#5. The whole of organic nature on our planet exists only by a relentless war of all against all ... The raging war of interests in human society is only a feeble picture of an unceasing and terrible war of existence which reigns throughout the whole of the living world.

Ernst Haeckel

#6. The nucleus has to take care of the inheritance of the heritable characters, while the surrounding cytoplasm is concerned with accommodation or adaptation to the environment.

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#7. Phylogeny and ontogeny are, therefore, the two coordinated branches of morphology. Phylogeny is the developmental history [Entwickelungsgeschichte] of the abstract, genealogical individual; ontogeny, on the other hand, is the developmental history of the concrete, morphological individual.

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#8. 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 by the fact that the human egg is nothing more than a simple cell.

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#9. When you are attracted to, and eat, fruits, occasionally a seed will be carried within you to a fertile ground.

David Wolfe

#10. We look at the one little woman's face we love, as we look at the face of our mother earth, and see all sorts of answers to our own yearnings.

George Eliot

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

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#12. Civilisation and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.

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#13. Now and then, there's a fool such as I.

Hank Snow

#14. In the course of individual development, inherited characters appear, in general, earlier than adaptive ones, and the earlier a certain character appears in ontogeny, the further back must lie in time when it was acquired by its ancestors.

Ernst Haeckel

#15. It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for.

T.H. White

#16. There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared 'European war' ... will become the first world war in the full sense of the word.

Ernst Haeckel

#17. 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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#18. What I loved about Anton was that he did the pictures really quickly, with no fuss, no fucking about: bang, bang, bang, and it was over. At the time, I thought, Now, that's how a photo shoot should be. Those shots he took of us in the tube station: absolutely brilliant.

Peter Hook

#19. There's another problem," Percy said. "I'm not good with air travel. It's dangerous for a son of Neptune."
"You'll have to risk it ... and so will I," Frank said. "By the way, we're related."
Percy almost stumbled off the roof. "What?

Rick Riordan

#20. My eyes, those sluts, those whores, would play no more.

Anne Sexton

#21. Among the Spartans all newly born children were subject to a careful examination or selection. All those that were weak, sickly, or affected with any bodily infirmity, were killed. Only the perfectly healthy and strong children were allowed to live, and they alone afterwards propagated the race.

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#22. Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.

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#23. By ecology we understand the total science of the connections of the organism to the surrounding external world.

Ernst Haeckel

#24. Politics is applied biology.

Ernst Haeckel

#25. Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of "being and becoming!" That is the broad lesson of the evolution of the world.

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#26. The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.

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#27. I totally believe that art is an open dialogue and that it is not logical. It does not always make sense.

Lynda Benglis

#28. ... the real secret to charisma is making each person you meet feel that they have your complete attention when they speak to you.

Nick Vujicic

#29. We measure the success of schools not by the kinds of human beings they promote but by whatever increases in reading scores they chalk up. We have allowed quantitative standards, so central to the adult economic system, to become the principal yardstick for our definition of our children's worth.

Kenneth Keniston

#30. Believe in yourself, even if you feel like turning back at times. Don't run away. Little by little you will get closer to achieving your dreams.

Yunho