Great Throughts Treasury

"The universe is the language of God."

"The eye takes a person into the world. The ear brings the world into a human being."

"During its development the animal passes through all stages of the animal kingdom. The foetus is a representation of all animal classes in time."

"Physio-philosophy has to show how, and in accordance indeed with what laws, the Material took its origin; and, therefore, how something derived its existence from nothing. It has to portray the first periods of the world's development from nothing; how the elements and heavenly bodies originated; in what method by self-evolution into higher and manifold forms, they separated into minerals, became finally organic, and in Man attained self-consciousness."

"The whole of a human being is merely a vertebra."

"The cells are thus the stomachs of which the plant has millions like mouths."

"All living organisms originate from and consist of cells."