 | Ernst Haeckel - 1880 - 414 str.
...most decidedly against the mechanical explanation of organic nature in the following passage (§ 74) : "It is quite certain that we cannot become sufficiently...intention; such an insight we must absolutely deny to man." Now, however, this impossible Newton has really appeared seventy years later in Darwin, whose... | |
 | Ernst Haeckel - 1883 - 416 str.
...most decidedly against the mechanical explanation of organic nature in the following passage (§ 74) : "It is quite certain that we cannot become sufficiently...intention; such an insight we must absolutely deny to man." Now, however, this impossible Newton has really appeared seventy years later in Darwin, whose... | |
 | Henry Fairfield Osborn - 1894 - 284 str.
...it is absurd for man even to conceive such an idea, or to hope that a Newton may one day arise even to make the production of a blade of grass comprehensible,...intention ; such an insight we must absolutely deny to man." As Haeckel observes, Darwin rose up as Kant's Newton ; for he offered an explanation of the production... | |
 | 1913 - 914 str.
...it is absurd for man even to conceive such an idea, or to hope that a Newton may one day arise even to make the production of a blade of grass comprehensible,...intention ; such an insight we must absolutely deny to man." Haeckel observes that Darwin was Kant's Newton of the organic world, for in 1858 he offered an... | |
 | A.C. SEWARD - 1909 - 800 str.
...Kant, biology being what it was, to refuse to entertain the hope " that a Newton may one day arise even to make the production of a blade of grass comprehensible,...according to natural laws ordained by no intention." As Prof. Haeckel finely observes, Darwin rose up as Kant's Newton2. The scientific renaissance brought... | |
 | Henry Fairfield Osborn - 1917 - 368 str.
...the "inorganic," in which natural causes prevail, and the "organic," in which the active teleological (ie, purposive) principle of adaptation is supposed...Newton for whom Kant did not dare to hope; but no 1 Kant, Emmanuel, 1 790, § 79. ' Ibid., § 74. one now claims for Darwin's law of natural selection... | |
 | 1918 - 840 str.
...they evolve. So far as a century and a quarter ago Kant boldly asserted "that it is absurd for man to hope that a Newton may one day arise able to make...intention ; such an insight we must absolutely deny to man." And even to-day we are in no better position to give a valid scientific explanation for those... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1920 - 372 str.
...famous passage. " It is quite certain that we cannot become sufficiently acquainted with organised creatures and their hidden potentialities by aid of...intention; such an insight we must absolutely deny to man " (Teleological Faculty of Judgment, § 74). We wonder how much of this he would have written had... | |
 | Edwin Grant Conklin - 1921 - 272 str.
...absurd for man even to conceive such an idea, or to hope that a Newton may one day arise to make even the production of a blade of grass comprehensible,...according to natural laws ordained by no intention." Haeckel and other pure mechanists have hailed Darwin as Kant's impossible Newton of the living world... | |
 | Woodbridge Riley - 1926 - 374 str.
...it is absurd for man even to conceive such an idea, or to hope that a Newton may one day arise even to make the production of a blade of grass comprehensible,...intention; such an insight we must absolutely deny to man. This statement at the time when it was uttered seemed to make the game a draw. It gave so much... | |
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It is quite certain that we cannot become sufficiently acquainted with organized creatures and their hidden potentialities by aid of purely mechanical natural principles, much less can we explain them ; and this is so certain, that we may boldly assert... 
