evolution

politics

nationality

German

occupation / innovator as

zoologist

naturalist

physician

philosopher

biologist

artist

ecologist

explorer

botanist

university teacher

ornithologist

scientific organization

German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

Lincean Academy

Zoological Society of London

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities

American Philosophical Society

Academy of Sciences of Turin

ichthyologist

innovator in the field of

common descent

is not only the process of change from one species to the next, it is a cosmic force, a beautiful regularity and a sign of nature's divinity.

For Haeckel, evolution did not only mean the process of change from one species to the next. Evolution for him was a cosmic force, a manifestation of the creative energy of nature. In his science-religion, therefore, he sought constantly for meaning, beauty, and regularity as inherent characteristics of nature and as signs of its divinity. For him poetry and science were one.

Politics is applied biology. Ernst Haeckel

Ernst Heinrich Haeckel

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