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• Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as…
• Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural…
• In science there is and will remain a Platonic element which could not be taken away without ruining it. Among the infinite…
• The future of mankind is going to be decided within the next two generations, and there are two absolute requisites: We must…
• A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.
• The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its…
• Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of them verges upon zero. Yet…
• Man at last knows that he is alone in the unfeeling immensity of the universe, out of which he emerged only by…
• ...the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity-that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan,…
• There are living systems; there is no living "matter." No substance, no single molecule, extracted and isolated from a living being possess,…
• One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is…
• Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears…

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