The Lagoon Quotes

“No one cranks the clockwork, no one points the little machine in the right direction – nature does.”
― Armand Marie Leroi, The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science

“Those who have spent time arguing instead of studying things as they are show all too clearly that they are incapable of seeing much at all.”
― Armand Marie Leroi, The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science

“The distinction between artefact and organism dissolved in a Petri dish.”
― Armand Marie Leroi, The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science

“In 2010 JCVI-syn1.0, the world’s first artificial cellular life form, fired its molecular motors.”
― Armand Marie Leroi, The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science

“I will not allow the Athenians to commit a second crime against philosophy.”
― Armand Marie Leroi, The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science

“Elected officials deposed each other by lawsuits.”
― Armand Marie Leroi, The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science

“A man could find himself in court on trivial or trumped-up charges, his fortune, home or life forfeit.”
― Armand Marie Leroi, The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science

“When, therefore, we ask what ageing is for we must give the peculiar answer that it isn’t for anything; it is, instead, the evolved consequence of there being no reason to stay alive.”
― Armand Marie Leroi, The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science

“theories have a part to play so long as what they indicate agrees with what is seen”
― Armand Marie Leroi, The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science

“me doubt that my interest was shared.”
― Armand Marie Leroi, The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science

“shaggy coat, and its stance made”
― Armand Marie Leroi, The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science

“I should have had to look under its”
― Armand Marie Leroi, The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science

“I was curious to know whether it still had its testicles,”
― Armand Marie Leroi, The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science

“the ability of, say, a male praying mantis to continue coitus even as his mate chews off his head makes the point.”
― Armand Marie Leroi, The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science

“From this point of view, a male cuttlefish who copulates with a dead female is not only wasting his time but making a serious philosophical mistake.”
― Armand Marie Leroi, The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science

“Aristotle says that ‘nature makes instruments to fit the function, not the function to fit the instrument’.”
― Armand Marie Leroi, The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science

“that where now there are two cases once there were 159, the rest having been destroyed by the Luftwaffe in the summer of 1944.”
― Armand Marie Leroi, The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science