Remember, in the heyday of vitalism, people said that when all the data are in about cells and how they work, we… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
I also suspect that many workers in this field [molecular biology] and related fields have been strongly motivated by the desire, rarely… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
“Signs imply ways of living, possibilities of existence, they are the symptoms of an overflowing (jaillissante) or exhausted (épuisée) life. But an… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“It is of course no secret to contemporary philosophers and psychologists that man himself is changing in our violent century, under the… — Seraphim Rose Copy Share Image
Biologists now pretty universally regard vitalism as a vestige of a bygone age. — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
“It’s the poet we love in Caeiro, not the philosopher. What we really get from these poems is a childlike sense of… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
“We have come to understand the phenomena of life only as an assemblage of the lifeless. We take the mechanistic abstractions of… — William Barrett Copy Share Image