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Ernst Haeckel

Born

in Potsdam, Germany

February 16, 1834

Died

August 09, 1919

Website

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Haeckel

Genre

Philosophy, Science, Biology

Influences

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Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (February 16, 1834 – August 9, 1919), also written von Haeckel, was an eminent German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology, including anthropogeny, ecology, phylum, phylogeny, stem cell, and the kingdom Protista. Haeckel promoted and popularized Charles Darwin's work in Germany and developed the controversial recapitulation theory ("ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny") claiming that an individual organism's biological development, or ontogeny, parallels and summarizes its species' evolutionary development, or phylogeny.

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	Art Forms in Nature by Ernst Haeckel, Richard P. Hartmann (Preface), Olaf Breidbach (Introduction) 4.13 avg rating — 7,662 ratings — published 1904 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Art & Science of Ernst Haeckel by Ernst Haeckel (Science-Artist), Rainer Willmann (Contributor), Julia Voss (Contributor) 4.61 avg rating — 120 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Riddle of the Universe (Great Minds Series) 3.58 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1899 — 223 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Creatures of the Deep: The Pop-up Book by Ernst Haeckel, Maike Biederstaedt 4.34 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kunstformen der Natur - Kunstformen aus dem Meer 4.68 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Evolution of Man really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2010 — 114 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ernst Haeckel's Art Forms in Nature: A Visual Masterpiece of the Natural World by Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Glitsch (Illustrator) 4.60 avg rating — 20 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The History Of Creation V1: Or The Development Of The Earth And Its Inhabitants By The Action Of Natural Causes by Ernst Haeckel, Edwin Ray Lankester (Translator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2007 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Haeckel's Art Forms from the Ocean CD-ROM and Book 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2004 — 62 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“As our mother earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain of protoplasm in the perishable framework of organic nature. [This] clearly indicates the true place of man in nature, but it dissipates the prevalent illusion of man's supreme importance and the arrogance with which he sets himself apart from the illimitable universe and exalts himself to the position of its most valuable element.”
― Ernst Haeckel, Riddle of the Universe

tags: existence, humble, nature, realisation

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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

tags: law, nature

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“Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has its origin in the poetic imagination; knowledge, on the other hand, originates in the reasoning intelligence of man. Science has to pluck the blessed fruits from the tree of knowledge, unconcerned whether these conquests trench upon the poetical imaginings of faith or not.”
― Ernst Haeckel, The History Of Creation V1: Or The Development Of The Earth And Its Inhabitants By The Action Of Natural Causes

tags: conquest, fruit, imagination, intelligence, knowledge, reason, science, science-and-religion, science-vs-religion

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