Ernst Haeckel

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

― Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919)

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“It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes no part of general education. Indeed, our so-called 'educated classes' are to this day in total ignorance of the most important circumstances and the most remarkable phenomena which Anthropogeny has brought to light.”

― Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919)

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"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 (1834-1919)

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"Man is not above nature, but in nature."

― Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919)

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

― Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919)

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"The cell never acts; it reacts."

― Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919)

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"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 (1834-1919)