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"... Her mecaz gibi, gerçekliğin bir kısmını yakalar ama çok fazla ciddiye aldığımızda ise yolumuzu şaşırtır."
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remember that no matter how selfish, how cruel, how unfeeling you have been today, every time you take a breath, you make a flower happy.
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if we had the complete DNA sequence of an organism and unlimited computational power, we could not compute the organism, because the organism does not compute itself from its genes. any computer that did as poor a job of computation as an organism does from its genetic “program” would be immediately thrown into the trash and its manufacturer would be sued by the purchaser.
the entire body of modern science rests on Descartes’s metaphor of the world as a machine, which he introduced in Part V of the Discourse on Method as a way of understanding organisms but then generalized as a way of thinking about the entire universe. “I have hitherto described this earth and generally the whole visible world, as if it were merely a machine in which there was nothing at all to consider except the shapes and motions of its parts.”
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The theory of epigenesis was that the organism was not yet formed in the fertilized egg, but that it arose as a consequence of profound changes in shape and form during the course of embryogenesis. It is usually said that the epigenetic view decisively defeated preformationism. After all, nothing could seem to us more foolish than a picture of the tiny man inside the sperm cell. Yet it is really preformationism that has triumphed, for there is no essential difference, but only one of mechanical details, between the view that the organism is already formed in the fertilized egg and the view that the complete blueprint of the organism and all the information necessary to specify it is contained there, a view that dominates modern studies of development.
Shakespeare 'in IV. Henry'sinin birinci bölümünde gururlu Owen Glendower güçleriyle övünür: "Engin derinliklerdeki canavarları çağırabilirim." Hotspur cevaplar, "Ben de yapabilirim ve herhangi bir adam da. Fakat çağırdığında gelirler mi?"
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Hiciv ustası yazar Mort Sahl bir zamanlar şöyle demişti: "Unutmayın, bugün ne kadar bencil, zalim, duyarsız olmuşsanız olun, her nefes alışınızda bir çiçeği mutlu etmektesiniz."
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