Great minds
Here i share some fine quotes from some great minds:
“The affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree… As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever branching and beautiful ramifications.” – Charles Darwin, 1859
Believed evolution leads to progressive perfection, culminating in the development of ‘higher’ (or better)
species; things nearer the bottom are ‘less evolved’ or ‘lower’. This is false:evolution allows the daptation to local circumstances; there is no trend of continuous progress–Ernst Haeckel (1834 – 1919)
“. . . we perceive that, relative to the animal kingdom, we should chiefly devote our attention to the invertebrate animals, because their enormous multiplicity in nature,the singular diversity of their systems of organization, and of their means of multiplication, . . . , show us, much better than the higher animals, the true course of nature, and the means which she has used and which she still
unceasingly employs to give existence to all the living bodies of which we have knowledge” (Lamarck)
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