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The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick QUOTES

The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick QUOTES

1 " What was it like to live amidst such machines, to be familiar with them, to have them shape one's earliest intuitions about machinery: how it works, what it does, how it compares to living creatures? "

― , The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick

2 " The most insistently reductive, device-like models of living creatures, models that left their unmistakable mark on Darwinism,relied upon a theology, a supernatural power to provide meaning and purpose. "

― , The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick