
“While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.”
Source: A Mencken Chrestomathy
“While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.”
“I am only an average man, but by George, I work harder at it than the average man.”
“Is it on your grandmother’s or grandfather’s side that you are descended from an ape?”
To Thomas Henry Huxley, debating Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/evolution/how-did-evol-theory-develop/the-story/index.html
Source: Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist (1951), p. 151
Context: There is thus a certain plausibility to Nietzsche's doctrine, though it is dynamite. He maintains in effect that the gulf separating Plato from the average man is greater than the cleft between the average man and a chimpanzee.
Source: 1860s, Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863), Ch.2, p. 95
“If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?”
The Origin of Humankind (1994)