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 HaeckelMental differences between the lowest men and the animals are less than those between the lowest and the highest man.
Ernst HaeckelThere 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 HaeckelBy ecology we understand the total science of the connections of the organism to the surrounding external world.
Ernst HaeckelNothing 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 HaeckelIt 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