Biology Quote by Boris Sidis

Evolution is a process of constant branching and expansion.

— Stephen Jay Gould

I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience.

— Jonas Salk

We need merely understand that the evolutionary process is neither random nor determined but creative. It follows the general pattern of all creativity. While…

— Thomas Berry

...evolution is the gradual development and stratification of progressive series of wholes, stretching from the inorganic beginnings to the highest level of spiritual creation.

— Jan Smuts

Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as in transformational…

— Ernst Mayr

Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information.

— Stephen Jay Gould

The tendency of everyone is to evolve.

— Romario

The central problem of biological evolution is the nature of mutation, but hitherto the occurrence of this has been wholly refractory and impossible to…

— Hermann Joseph Muller

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very…

— Terry Pratchett

Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.

— Ernst Mayr

In the broadest sense, evolution is merely change, and so is all-pervasive; galaxies, languages, and political systems all evolve. Biological evolution ... is change…

— Douglas J. Futuyma

The beauty of evolution is that it does provide an explanation of how you can get complexity out of simplicity. It does it by…

— Richard Dawkins