"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."

Source : Ernst Haeckel, Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, L. Dora Schmitz (1906). “The History of Creation: Or The Development of the Earth and Its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes. A Popular Exposition of the Doctrine of Evolution in General, and of that of Darwin, Goethe, and Lamarck in Particular. From the 8th German Ed. of Ernst Haeckel ... The Translation Rev. by E. Ray Lankester”

Ernst Haeckel

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“Surgical knowledge depends on long practice, not from speculations.”
“If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it”
“There is something about the ritual of the race - putting on the number, lining up, being timed - that brings out the best in us.”
“I'm not blind to the fact that we have to do a better job with our relationships between the community and police.”
“God bless America, land that I love, Stand beside her, and guide her, Through the night, with the light from above, From the mountains, to the prairies To the oceans, white with foam God bless America, my home sweet home, God bless America! My Home Sweet Home!”

Source : "God Bless America" (song) (1939) See Peeke 1
“And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really.”

Source : "The List" by Nia Vardalos, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2009.
“By giving the government unlimited powers, the most arbitrary rule can be made legal; and in this way a democracy may set up the most complete despotism imaginable.”
“I think buildings should imitate ecological systems.”

Source : "CNN" Interview, edition.cnn.com. July 20, 2007.

"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."

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