Efficiency of nature

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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.

Aristotle

Politics

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Aristotle. Politics. 4th century BC, bk. 1.

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Aristotle. Politics, translated by R. F. Stalley and Sir Ernest Barker. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 1.

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Nature never makes excellent things for mean or no uses.

John Locke

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding

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Locke, John. An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. London: Thomas Basset, 1690, bk. 2, ch. 1, sect. 15.

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Locke, John. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, edited by Pauline Phemister. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 2, ch. 1, sect. 15.

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In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary.

Maimonides

Guide for the Perplexed

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Maimonides. דלאלת אלחאירין [The Guide of the Perplexed]. c. 1190.

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Maimonides. The Guide of the Perplexed, translated by Chaim Rabin. Hackett Publishing Company, 1995.

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