In principle, one by one, the difficulties of explaining living systems in terms of chemistry and physics disappear. "In principle" are the operative words. In practice the difficulties remain great and seem insurmountable in the foreseeable future. But, from the point of view of the theory of knowledge, there is nevertheless a decisive difference.


How the Whole Becomes More than the Sum of the Parts, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Volume 14, Number 3, Spring, 1971 (p. 452)


In principle, one by one, the difficulties of explaining living systems in terms of chemistry and physics disappear. In principle are the operative...

In principle, one by one, the difficulties of explaining living systems in terms of chemistry and physics disappear. In principle are the operative...

In principle, one by one, the difficulties of explaining living systems in terms of chemistry and physics disappear. In principle are the operative...

In principle, one by one, the difficulties of explaining living systems in terms of chemistry and physics disappear. In principle are the operative...