The Restless Clock Quotes

“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

“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