If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone has ever had, I'd give it to Darwin, ahead of Newton and Einstein and everyone else. In a single stroke, the idea of evolution by natural selection unifies the realm of life, meaning, and purpose with the realm of space and time, cause and effect, mechanism and physical law.
![]() Daniel DennettAmerican philosopher 28 March 1942 — |
![]() Darwin`s Dangerous Idea |
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