The most productive novelties often spring, in thought as in biological evolution, from more primitive and simpler forms, rather than from differentiated ones which, through their elaboration, have become too specialized to be adaptable to new tasks.

— Lancelot Law Whyte Essay on Atomism: From Democritus to 1960 (1961)

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