Biology Quote by Dan Simmons

The fuel for evolution is diversity, with natural selection leading to continuous adaptations and improvements in Nature's handiwork.

— Frances Arnold

“You can't separate adaptability from evolution”

— Thabiso Monkoe

Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again,…

— Daniel Dennett

The essence of Darwinism lies in its claim that natural selection creates the fit. Variation is ubiquitous and random in direction. It supplies raw…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process

— Gerald Edelman

evolution is a tinkerer, an ad-hocker, and a jury-rigger. It works with what it has on hand, not with what it has in mind.…

— Natalie Angier

“The evolutionary algorithm--of variation and selection, repeated--searches for solutions in a world where the problems keep changing, trying all sorts of variants and doing…

— Tim Harford

In order to survive, all systems must evolve by providing greater and greater access to the currents that flow through them. This applies to…

— John Hagel

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

— Jonas Salk

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

— Ernst Mayr

Evolution continually innovates, but at each level it conserves the elements that are recombined to yield the innovations.

— John Henry Holland

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