
If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone has ever had, I'd give it to Darwin, ahead of Newton and Einstein. And everyone else. In a single stroke, the idea of evolution by natural selection unifies the realm of life, meaning, and purpose with the realm of space and time, cause and effect, mechanism and physical law. But it is not just a wonderful scientific idea. It is a dangerous idea.
Darwin's dangerous idea: evolution and the meanings of life - Página 21, de Daniel Clement Dennett - Publicado por Simon & Schuster, 1996, ISBN 068482471X, 9780684824710 - 586 páginas