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August Weismann Quotes

Every individual alive today, even the very highest, is to be derived in an unbroken line from the first and lowest forms.

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
August Weismann, Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton, Selmar Schönland, Sir Arthur Everett Shipley (1889). “Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems”

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
Littles, World, Evolution
August Weismann, Sir John Arthur Thomson, Margaret R. Thomson (1904). “The Evolution Theory”

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
Nature, Eye, Science

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
August Weismann, Sir John Arthur Thomson, Margaret R. Thomson (1904). “The Evolution Theory”

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