Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion. — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
“It has turned out, in fact, to be far harder to translate teleological into non-teleological language than had been anticipated by philosophers;… — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
“Nor have any Darwinians ever given, to this day, any such reconciliation of their theory with the teleological language which they employ… — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
“Finally, when I finished rambling, he said, “Don, all relationships are teleological.” I asked him what the word teleological meant. “It means… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“This is a throwback to the Aristotelian conception of nature, banished from the scene at the birth of modern science. But I… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
These commonplace categories - wife, mother, housewife, teacher - are in fact teleological referents. They gesture to profound states of being that… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“That which struck the present writer most forcibly on his first perusal of the 'Origin of Species' was the conviction that Teleology,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“In the discoveries of science the harmony of the spheres is also now the harmony of life. And as the eerie illumination… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
“I am drawn to a fourth alternative, natural teleology, or teleological bias, as an account of the existence of the biological possibilities… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
