Lawrence Joseph Henderson Quote

Science has finally put the old teleology to death. Its dismembered spirit, freed from vitalism and all material ties, immortal, alone lives on, and from such a ghost, science has nothing to fear.


The Fitness of the Environment: An Inquiry into the Biological Significance of the Properties of Matter, Chapter VIII, Section III, B (p. 311), The Macmillan Company. 1913


Science has finally put the old teleology to death. Its dismembered spirit, freed from vitalism and all material ties, immortal, alone lives on, and...

Science has finally put the old teleology to death. Its dismembered spirit, freed from vitalism and all material ties, immortal, alone lives on, and...

Science has finally put the old teleology to death. Its dismembered spirit, freed from vitalism and all material ties, immortal, alone lives on, and...

Science has finally put the old teleology to death. Its dismembered spirit, freed from vitalism and all material ties, immortal, alone lives on, and...