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