“The upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere.”
Roger Wolcott Sperry (1913–1994) American neuroscientist
Source: Science and the Problem of Values (1972), p. 128
“The grand design of nature perceived broadly in four dimensions, including the forces that move the universe and created man, with special focus on evolution in our own biosphere, is something intrinsically good that it is right to preserve and enhance, and wrong to destroy and degrade.”
Source: Science and the Problem of Values (1972), p. 127
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