Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
I would say that teleology is theology, and that God is not a "because," but rather an "in order to. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
“The chicken does not exist only in order to produce another egg. He may also exist to amuse himself, to praise God,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A teleology directed to material ends has been substituted for the lust for adventure, variety, and play. — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Teleology is a lady without whom no biologist can live. Yet he is ashamed to show himself with her in public. — Ernst Wilhelm von Brucke Copy Share Image
Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In the beginning, there were no reasons; there were only causes. Nothing had a purpose, nothing has so much as a function;… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
The assignment of purpose to everything is called teleology. Children are native teleologists, and many never grow out of it. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“It looks as if the offspring have eyes so that they can see well (bad, teleological, backward causation), but that's an illusion.… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“In either case, natural teleology would mean that the universe is rationally governed in more than one way—not only through the universal… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Moral Teleology supplies the deficiency in physical Teleology , and first establishes a Theology ; because the latter, if it did not… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“The whole of the argument of the advocate of the wider teleology is that God wanted the higher type. But if that… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history. One has… — Karl Marx 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
“According to Teleology, each organism is like a rifle bullet fired straight at a mark; according to Darwin , organisms are like… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“Cats catch mice, small birds and the like, very well. Teleology tells us that they do so because they were expressly constructed… — 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
“For in the ever-repeated origination of highly organized individuals from an infinitesimal germ, the working-out of a prearranged plan of growth and… — Hans Jonas 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
“It is life, not the individual, that is conscienceless. The essential, therefore, is to understand the time for which one is born.… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
