Quote#Wisdom
Whether we take these characters then, or such minor ones as those…
Quote byThomas Henry Huxley · 1825–1895
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863), Ch.2, p. 92.
English (original)
Whether we take these characters then, or such minor ones as those which are derivable from the proportional length of the spines in the cervical vertebrae, and the like, there is no doubt whatsoever as to the marked difference between Man and the Gorilla; but there is as little, that equally marked differences, of the very same order, obtain between the Gorilla and the lower apes.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
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