Biology Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

“Biological determinism is a blight on science. It implies that the way things are is the way they must be. [...] This position is…

— John Horgan

Determinism is the thesis that is true at every moment that the way things then are determines a unique future, that only one of…

— Peter van Inwagen

“...But living creatures are idiosyncratic. They are created in such a way that they can actualize only what their microscopic minds wish for. The…

— Lionel Suggs

“The determinism of the physical laws simply reflects the determinism of the method of inference. This soulless nature of the scientific world need not…

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

“Diamond writes, can be summarized in a single sentence: “History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples’ environments, not because…

— Nicholas Wade

The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.

— Max Planck

This general tendency to eliminate, by means of unverifiable speculations, the limits of the categories nature presents to us is the inheritance of biology…

— W. R. Thompson

“My life is bound … ; not so the life of humanity, … [T]he future always unveils the fact that the alleged limits of…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

“Quantum physics might seem to undermine the idea that nature is governed by laws, but that is not the case. Instead it leads us…

— Stephen Hawking

The more we know about our universe, the more difficult it becomes to believe in determinism.

— Ilya Prigogine

I don't believe in technological determinism, especially not in biology and medicine. We have strong laws to keep doctors from monkeying around with humans…

— Freeman Dyson

Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.

— Claude Bernard