Showing posts with label Jacques Monod. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jacques Monod. Show all posts

Wednesday, 25 August 2010

Sensitive Dependence On Initial Cultural Conditions

Just as an initial “choice” in the biological evolution of a species can be binding upon its entire future, so the choice of scientific practice, an unconscious choice in the beginning, has launched the evolution of culture on a one-way path…
— Jacques Monod 'Chance And Necessity'