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Quotation from The Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant
“it is absurd for men to make any such attempt or to hope that another _Newton_ will arise in the future, who shall make comprehensible by us the production of a blade of grass according to natural laws which no design has ordered”
The Critique of Judgement, Part II, § 75, trans. J. H. Bernard (1914)
Kant's claim that organized beings cannot be explained by mechanical principles alone, so far as human understanding goes.
Citation: "it is absurd for men to make any such attempt or to hope that another _Newton_ will arise in the future, who shall make comprehensible by us the production of a blade of grass according to natural laws which no design has ordered" — Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Judgement, Part II, § 75, trans. J. H. Bernard (1914). (id kant-critique-of-judgement-q13)
