An Egg is a Chemical Process
An egg is a chemical process, but it is not a mere chemical process. It is one that is going places—even when, in our world of chance and contingency, it ends up in an omelet and not in a chicken. Though it surely be a chemical process, we cannot understand it adequately without knowing the kind of chicken it has the power to become.
Sir John Randall, The Changing Impact of Darwin on Philosophy (1961)
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But one with a long, complex history ahead of it.
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- The Changing Impact of Darwin on Philosophy Journal Article
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