Teleology Quotes (2)
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 up with the crude English method of development, of course. Despite all deficiencies not only is the death-blow dealt here for the first time to 'teleology' in the natural sciences, but their rational meaning is empirically explained.
Marx to Lasalle, 16 Jan 1861. In Marx-Engels Selected Correspondence, 1846-95, trans. Donna Torr (1934), 125.
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Teleology is a lady without whom no biologist can live. Yet he is ashamed to show himself with her in public.
Quoted in H.A. Krebs, 'Excursion into the Borderland of Biochemistry and Philosophy', Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1954, 95, 45.
