Are you on a diet? Why are you eating that rabbit food?

Darwin famously provided a bubble-up theory of organismic complexity, arguing that “in order to make a perfect and beautiful machine it is not requisite to know how to make it” (MacKenzie, quoted in Dennett 2009).

I have promised him that when he is released, early next year, I will find him something to do: a job in a gymnasium, if possible, where his feeling for men and physical exercise can be fulfilled, rather than baulked and denied in some clerkly work.

I knew more about “disjecta membra” than a butcher or a furniture mover. That was a great phrase of mine—disjecta membra—I used to work it off on my friends, I have never since had such a chance to play with it till today. “There,” I would say to them, quietly, just like that, “there are the Elgin marbles, disjecta membra.”