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- Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process — Gerald Edelman
- This organ deserves to be styled the starting point of life and the sun of our microcosm just as much as the… — William Harvey
- The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved. — Aristotle
- The final cause of law is the welfare of society. — Benjamin Cardozo
- It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe,… — Arthur Balfour
- The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the… — Aristotle
- So the horns of the stag are sharp to offend his adversary, but are branched for the purpose of parrying or receiving… — Erasmus Darwin
- But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person… — Orson Scott Card
- Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become,… — Julian Barnes
- I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in… — Walter Scott