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. Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material.

Michael Behe

#3. 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

#4. The cell never acts; it reacts.

Ernst Haeckel

#5. One time I laughed so hard, I just had to go and change my pantyhose. I lost it. Lost it. At least it wasn't onstage.

Anne Meara

#6. And that very same evening - that very same evening - Lord Edgware dies. Good title that, by the way. Lord Edgware Dies. Look well on a book stall.

Agatha Christie

#7. 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

#8. Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale." - Hans Christian Andersen

Laura Kenyon

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

Ernst Haeckel

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

Ernst Haeckel

#11. Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols ... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols, rule us.

Alfred Korzybski

#12. I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

Steven Wright

#13. 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.

Ernst Haeckel

#14. 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.

Ernst Haeckel

#15. 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.

Ernst Haeckel

#16. empathy is not a reflex that makes us sympathetic to everyone we lay eyes upon. It can be switched on and off, or thrown into reverse, by our construal of the relationship we have with a person. Its head is turned by cuteness, good looks, kinship, friendship, similarity, and communal solidarity.

Steven Pinker

#17. 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

#18. Bullies are ultimately unhappy people who try to inflict pain and hate on others and are to be pitied. Once you realize that, their words can no longer hurt you.

Frankie J. Grande

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

Ernst Haeckel

#20. 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.

Ernst Haeckel

#21. I suffer panic attacks which has made me really conscious about my fitness and I have become addicted to jogging. It might sound odd but a lot of good has come out of it. My fans send letters saying they have taken up jogging because I do it.

Ellie Goulding

#22. 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.

Ernst Haeckel

#23. 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.

Ernst Haeckel

#24. Which meant he had about eight weeks to pull something amazing out of his butt.
His butt was not being terribly helpful.

Cherie Priest

#25. The person determined to achieve maximum success learns the principle that progress is made one step at a time.

David J. Schwartz

#26. When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.

Sheryl Crow

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

Ernst Haeckel

#28. If you're playing with somebody from another idiom, you can't react to them in the same way that you react to somebody that is closer to your idiom. You don't fall into the same habits. You find a new way of communicating.

David Sanborn

#29. Politics is applied biology.

Ernst Haeckel

#30. 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.

Ernst Haeckel

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

Ernst Haeckel

#32. John Kerry accused President Bush of catering to the rich. You know, as opposed to John Kerry who just marries them.

Jay Leno