Animism Quote by David Ray Griffin

“Whoever we are, we find ourselves, through self-observation, possessed of a certain small number of typical ways of reacting to the manifold impressions of…

— Maurice Nicoll

“Recall the metaphor I used in chapter 4 relating the random movements of molecules in a gas to the random movements of evolutionary change.…

— Ray Kurzweil

“The ideal of the 11th/17th century physicists was to be able to explain all physical reality in terms of the movement of atoms. This…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“The result of these cumulative efforts to investigate the cell—to investigate life at the molecular level—is a loud, clear, piercing cry of “design!” The…

— Michael J. Behe

Biology seems to be a chemical strategy for amplifying quantum mechanical indeterminacy so that it leaves the subatomic realm and can be present in…

— Terence McKenna

Organisms [...] are directed and limited by their past. They must remain imperfect in their form and function, and to that extent unpredictable since…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“One could argue that the observer effect is the primary energetic dynamic of ‘reality’ itself. This effect showcases the eminently malleable nature of the…

— Sol Luckman

The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.

— Francis Crick

“Clearly, if atoms can be assembled to make humans, the laws of physics also permit the construction of vastly more advanced forms of sentient…

— Max Tegmark

The result of [the] cumulative efforts to investigate the cell - to investigate life at the molecular level - is a loud, clear, piercing…

— Michael Behe

Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of the most…

— Claude Bernard

We're seeing a move toward making things that either chemistry cannot make or can't make efficiently but biology does.

— Frances Arnold