Sounds very much like Kant, or even moreso Leibniz and his Monads. Obviously these guys didn't know about quantum mechanics (or evolution), but the thing I find

Sounds very much like Kant, or even moreso Leibniz and his Monads. Obviously these guys didn't know about quantum mechanics (or evolution), but the thing I find interesting is that the developers of relativity and quantum theory were very familiar with Kant and Leibniz. I have to believe their interpretation of modern physics was shaped by their reading of these philosophers.