"A cause that operates intellectually not only confers on the effect, in the act of producing it, all that is required…"

"If teleological study of the world is philosophy, and if the Law commands such a study, then the Law commands philoso…"

"As we divided natural philosophy in general into the inquiry of causes, and productions of effects: so that part whic…"

"This misplacing hath caused a deficience, or at least a great improficience in the sciences themselves. For the handl…"

"The natural philosophy of Democritus and some others, who did not suppose a mind or reason in the frame of things, bu…"

"The simultaneity of the disappearance of literature (as aesthetic) and history (as development), which we can observe…"

"What in the whole denotes a causal equilibrium process, appears for the part as a teleological event."

"Mechanism... provides us with no grasp of the specific characteristics of organisms, of the organization of organic p…"

"Today our main problem is that of organized complexity. Concepts like those of organization, wholeness, directiveness…"

"The synthesis of paleontology, taxonomy, and comparative anatomy that Cuvier achieved was based on a teleological app…"