Sublime

Agassiz produced a stream of articles for Atlantic Monthly and carried the fight to the lecture circuit, his popularity soaring to new heights. The articles, published as a book, Methods of Study in Natural History, went through nineteen editions. To know that Agassiz of Harvard decried the theories of Charles Darwin, that he, of all learned men, m

An Institution for the Amateur Biologist (diybio.org).

All diese Entdeckungen neugieriger Botaniker (die oft Wiederentdeckungen sind aus einer Zeit, als man Lebewesen generell mehr zutraute) werden von einigen Wissenschaftlern argwöhnisch beobachtet, von anderen als grandiose Leistungen der Pflanzen gefeiert.

No fim das contas, os seres humanos não passam de portadores — vias — para os genes.

The biosphere is utterly saturated with design, with purpose, with reasons. What I call the “design stance” predicts and explains features throughout the living world using the same assumptions that work so well when reverse-engineering artifacts made by (somewhat) intelligent human designers.

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To be human is to confuse a satisfying story with a meaningful one, and to mistake life for something huge with two legs.