Chicken Quote by G.K. Chesterton

Leaving the complications of the human breakfast-table out of account, in an elemental sense, the egg only exists to produce the chicken. But the…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It does seem simple, doesn't it?' she said, with a final bitter attempt at flippancy, 'when you want to kill a chicken...you take hold…

— Baroness Orczy

Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process

— Gerald Edelman

“It looks as if the offspring have eyes so that they can see well (bad, teleological, backward causation), but that's an illusion. The offspring…

— Steven Pinker

“It is life, not the individual, that is conscienceless. The essential, therefore, is to understand the time for which one is born. He who…

— Oswald Spengler

I would say that teleology is theology, and that God is not a "because," but rather an "in order to.

— Miguel de Unamuno

“The whole of the argument of the advocate of the wider teleology is that God wanted the higher type. But if that is so…

— Chapman Cohen

“For in the ever-repeated origination of highly organized individuals from an infinitesimal germ, the working-out of a prearranged plan of growth and development seems…

— Hans Jonas

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…

— Karl Marx

“In either case, natural teleology would mean that the universe is rationally governed in more than one way—not only through the universal quantitative laws…

— Thomas Nagel

“In the discoveries of science the harmony of the spheres is also now the harmony of life. And as the eerie illumination of science…

— Michael Denton

Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which…

— Carl Jung