Nevertheless I think that it is not these achievements that will put their stamp on our century: if you ask me for my innermost conviction whether it will one day be called the century of iron, steam or electricity, I will answer without qualms that it will be named the century of the mechanical view of nature, of Darwin.

• Science of Chaos or Chaos in Science? - статья совершенно замечательная. И серьезная, и смешная. Очень познавательная. Не очень простая. И Больцман, и Дарвин там, и Поппер - все подряд, короче. Oh no wonder! It's him & Alan Sokal have written Fashionable Nonsense

  A final point which is common to Boltzmann and to Darwin (and his successors) is that they have provided ``brilliant confirmations of the mechanical view of Nature"93. Many people simply cannot swallow mechanical and reductionist explanations. They need some vital spirit, some teleological principle or some other animist view. Their philosophies ``thrive upon the errors and confusions of the intellect". And this is probably why the theories of Boltzmann and of Darwin have been constantly attacked and misrepresented. Putting philosophical considerations aside, I believe that what we understand well, we understand in mechanical and reductionist terms. There is no such thing as a holist explanation in science. And thanks to people like Boltzmann and Darwin the ``mechanical view of Nature" is alive and well, and is here to stay.

  
  
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