August Weismann famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The world has been evolved, not created: it has arisen little by little from a small beginning, and has increased through the activity of the elemental forces embodied in itself, and so has rather grown than come into being at an almighty word.
-- August Weismann

#World #Littles #Evolution
What a sublime idea of the infinite might of the great Architect, the Cause of all causes, the Father of all fathers, the Ens Entium! For if we would compare the Infinite, it would surely require a greater Infinite to cause the causes of effects than to produce the effects themselves.
-- August Weismann

#Father #Ideas #Sublime
We do not draw conclusions with our eyes, but with our reasoning powers, and if the whole of the rest of living nature proclaims with one accord from all sides the evolution of the world of organisms, we cannot assume that the process stopped short of Man. But it follows also that the factors which brought about the development of Man from his Simian ancestry must be the same as those which have brought about the whole of evolution.
-- August Weismann

#Eye #Men #World
Every individual alive today, even the very highest, is to be derived in an unbroken line from the first and lowest forms.
-- August Weismann

#Science #Live For Today #Unbroken

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.
I have little shame, no dignity â€“ all in the name of a better cause.
I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith.
I rarely drink from the bottle, but I'll smoke a little weed,
Don't. Please, just let me hold you a little bit longer," he mumbled into my hair
I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.
I would like evolution to join the roster of other discredited religions.

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