Biology Quote by Daniel Dennett

As a general rule, biology tends to be conservative. It's rare that evolution 'invents' the same process several times.

— Gero Miesenbock

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

— Gerald Edelman

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

— Jonas Salk

The point of human evolution is adapting to circumstance. Not letting go of the old, but adapting it, is necessary.

— Sonali Bendre

“It is therefore scientifically correct to say that 'natural selection has been proved to be an agent of evolutionary change' - we can, in…

— E.F. Schumacher

“we must always remember that the real content of evolution (biological as well as cultural) is the elaboration of new behaviour.”

— Jacob Bronowski

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

Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology.

— Steven Pinker

Evolution is baseless and quite incredible.

— John Ambrose Fleming

Despite the fact that human beings think that they have escaped the evolutionary paradigm, they've done nothing of the kind, and so we should…

— Bret Weinstein

Evolution is the most popular way we have for dealing with change.

— Seth Godin

Evolutionary biology is crazy because sometimes it seems anybody can draw any conclusion they want.

— Naomi Wolf