“Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of his desire for knowledge. And the answers he received to the questions, "Where do I come from?", "What is man?", although they made him poorer by a few illusions, gave him in compensation a knowledge of his past that is vaster than he could ever have dreamed. For it emerged that the history of life was his history too.” MenMadeEarthPastDesireAnswersStageDevelopmentEvolutionLateIllusionAddressesInquiryCompensationDesire For KnowledgeHistory Of Life Author:Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald
“These are the experiences I wish to record in this book, which should really be called The Diary of a Palaeontologist. But in committing them to paper I found it advisable to alter and add a good deal, to enable the reader without specialized training to follow me along the winding paths of palaeontology and prehistory.” ShouldBookFoundWishDealsPathRecordsEvolutionReaderPaperTrainingAddDiariesFollow MeAdvisablePrehistory Author:Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald
