Historie als museumstuk

"When you are actually challenged to think of pre-Darwinian answers to the questions 'What is man?' 'Is there a meaning to life?' 'What are we for?', can you, as a matter of fact, think of any that are not now worthless except for their (considerable) historic interest? There is such a thing as being just plain wrong, and that is what, before 1859, all answers to those questions were." (Dawkins 2009, The Selfish Gene, p. 267)

"Locke's a priori proof of the inconceivability of Design without Mind [...] is now as obsolete as the quill pen with which it was written, a fascinating museum piece, a curiosity that can do no real work in the intellectual world today." (Dennett 1995, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, p. 83)