Teleology Quotes

9 quotes by 9 authors

• 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
• 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
• 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
• Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process — Gerald Edelman
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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:

• 1 Teleology Quote by Richard Dawkins
• 1 Teleology Quote by Karl Marx
• 1 Teleology Quote by Alfred Adler
• 1 Teleology Quote by Alfred North Whitehead
• 1 Teleology Quote by Ernst Wilhelm von Brucke
• 1 Teleology Quote by Gerald Edelman
• 1 Teleology Quote by John Searle
• 1 Teleology Quote by John B. S. Haldane
• 1 Teleology Quote by Carl Jung