Biology Quote by Brian Eno

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

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence…

— Richard Dawkins

New laws, new kinds of things can emerge as the universe evolves. The more moving parts you have in something, the more possibilities there…

— Adam Frank

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

— Alan Perlis

Simplicity in complexity is what nature is all about.

— Tasneem Hameed

“Evolution is the ultimate example of how much a simple learning algorithm can achieve given enough data.”

— Pedro Domingos

I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy.

— Murray Gell-Mann

Evolution has long been badly taught. In particular, students - and even professional biologists - acquire theories of evolution without any deep understanding of…

— Gregory Bateson

I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex…

— Hari Kunzru

And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.

— Will Wright

Anyone who understands evolution knows that it doesn't necessarily lead from simpler to more complex life-forms. Rather, it leads to life-forms better suited to…

— J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.

— Ray Kurzweil