Do not draw the hasty conclusion that, because the clarity and unanimity reached in the study of inanimate nature have not been approached in the study of life, they have... no application... to the higher aspects of life. ...[A]s regards what it is impossible to believe.., they effect a not inconsiderable simplification, and... pave the way... for a more definite and truer... philosophy to replace the old.
— FREDERICK SODDY