«If I could give a prize for the single best idea
anybody ever had, I’d give it to Darwin. In a single stroke
Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection united the
realm of physics and mechanism on the one hand with the realm
of meaning and purpose on the other. From a Darwinian
perspective the continuity between lifeless matter on the one
hand and living things and all their activities and products on the
other can be glimpsed in outline and explored in detail, not just
the strivings of animals and the efficient designs of plants, but
human meanings and purposes: art and science itself, and even
morality».

(Dennett 2009)