"It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection."

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The Phenomenon of Man stands square in the tradition of Naturphilosophie, a philosophical indoor pastime of German origin which does not seem even by accident (though there is a great deal of it) to have contributed anything of permanent value to the storehouse of human thought.

— Peter Medawar