Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind

Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind

I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it.

Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because we do not know the use of it.

Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material.

The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle.

A rill in a barnyard and the Grand Canyon represent, in the main, stages of valley erosion that began some millions of years apart.