Note 642 — Chapter XVII · ON THE THEORY OF TRANSFORMATIONS, OR THE COMPARISON OF RELATED FORMS*

M. Bergson repudiates, with peculiar confidence, the application of mathematics to biology. Cf. Creative Evolution, p. 21, “Calculation touches, at most, certain phenomena of organic destruction. Organic creation, on the contrary, the evolutionary phenomena which properly constitute life, we cannot in any way subject to a math­e­mat­i­cal treatment.”