Teleology Quotes
9 quotes by 9 authors
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Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand…
— Alfred Adler
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The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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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
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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
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Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of human and animal…
— John Searle
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Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history. One has to put up…
— Karl Marx
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Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public.
— John B. S. Haldane
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Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek…
— Carl Jung
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The assignment of purpose to everything is called teleology. Children are native teleologists, and many never grow out of it.
— Richard Dawkins
Who Wrote These Teleology Quotes
9 authors contributed a total of 9 Teleology Quotes as follows: