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> [“In the discoveries of science the harmony of the spheres is also now the harmony of life. And as the eerie illumination of science penetrates evermore deeply into the order of nature, the cosmos appears increasingly to be a vast…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-denton/in-the-discoveries-of-science-the-harmony-of-the-spheres-is-also-now/)

[Michael Denton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-denton/)

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## More by Michael Denton

> [Nowhere was Darwin able to point to one bona fide case of natural selection having actually generated evolutionary change in nature…Ultimately, the Darwinian theory…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-denton/nowhere-was-darwin-able-to-point-to-one-bona-fide-case-of-natural/)

[Michael Denton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-denton/)

> [The hold of the evolutionary paradigm is so powerful that an idea which is more like a principle of medieval astrology than a serious…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-denton/the-hold-of-the-evolutionary-paradigm-is-so-powerful-that-an-idea/)

[Michael Denton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-denton/)

> [Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on the earth today, bacterial cells, are exceedingly complex objects. Although the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-denton/molecular-biology-has-shown-that-even-the-simplest-of-all-living/)

[Michael Denton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-denton/)

> [Is it really credible that random processes could have constructed a reality...which excels in every sense anything produced by the intelligence of man?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-denton/is-it-really-credible-that-random-processes-could-have-constructed-a/)

[Michael Denton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-denton/)

> [Making art is like humour - very moment dependent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-denton/making-art-is-like-humour-very-moment-dependent/)

[Michael Denton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-denton/)

> [Throughout the past century there has always existed a significant minority of first-rate biologists who have never been able to bring themselves to accept…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-denton/throughout-the-past-century-there-has-always-existed-a-significant/)

[Michael Denton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-denton/)

> [“In the discoveries of science the harmony of the spheres is also now the harmony of life. And as the eerie illumination of science…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-denton/in-the-discoveries-of-science-the-harmony-of-the-spheres-is-also-now/)

[Michael Denton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-denton/)

> [ In a very real sense, therefore, advocacy of the doctrine of continuity \[i.e evolutionism\] has always necessitated on retreat from pure empiricism \[i.e., logic… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-denton/in-a-very-real-sense-therefore-advocacy-of-the-doctrine-of-continuity/)

[Michael Denton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-denton/)

> [In terms of their basic biochemical design…no living system can be thought of as being primitive or ancestral with respect to any other system,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-denton/in-terms-of-their-basic-biochemical-design-no-living-system-can-be/)

[Michael Denton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-denton/)

> [In the final analysis the hierarchic pattern is nothing like the straightforward witness for organic evolution that is commonly assumed. There are facets of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-denton/in-the-final-analysis-the-hierarchic-pattern-is-nothing-like-the/)

[Michael Denton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-denton/)

> [“The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object could have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-denton/the-complexity-of-the-simplest-known-type-of-cell-is-so-great-that-it/)

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> [“The theory of phlogiston was an inversion of the true nature of combustion. Removing phlogiston was in reality adding oxygen, while adding phlogiston was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-denton/the-theory-of-phlogiston-was-an-inversion-of-the-true-nature-of/)

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> [Considering the way the prebiotic soup is referred to in so many discussions of the origin of life as an already established reality, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-denton/considering-the-way-the-prebiotic-soup-is-referred-to-in-so-many/)

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> [“To grasp the reality of life as it has been revealed by molecular biology, we must magnify a cell a thousand million times until…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-denton/to-grasp-the-reality-of-life-as-it-has-been-revealed-by-molecular/)

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