The Restless Clock Quotes

“The most insistently reductive, device-like models of living creatures, models that left their unmistakable mark on Darwinism,relied upon a theology, a supernatural power to provide meaning and purpose.”
― Jessica Riskin, The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick

“What was it like to live amidst such machines, to be familiar with them, to have them shape one's earliest intuitions about machinery: how it works, what it does, how it compares to living creatures?”
― Jessica Riskin, The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick