Biology Quote by E.B. Hudspeth

Evolutionary plasticity can be purchased only at the ruthlessly dear price of continuously sacrificing some individuals to death from unfavourable mutations. Bemoaning this imperfection…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

“You are a side effect of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation.”

— John Green

“You're not mutation, you are evolution.”

— DeCandido Keith R. A

“Right. Mutation is the trigger that moves evolution forward. So, how do mutations happen?”

— Koji Suzuki

“New mutations don't create new species; they create offspring that are impaired.”

— Lynn Margulis

“Evolution wasn’t a blueprint; it was a series of mistakes that occasionally turned out to be beneficial. And the doctor knew those were few…

— Evan C. Currie

“Evolution is no more than the perpetuation of error.”

— Steve Jones

“Natural Selection almost inevitably causes much Extinction of the less improved forms of life and induces what I have called Divergence of Character.”

— Charles Darwin

“Pity thwarts the whole law of evolution, which is the law of natural selection. It preserves whatever is ripe for destruction;”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Why resist change when it's the main source of your evolution?”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

“evolution  only happens by learning new skills, developing these skills and qualities, and then embodying them.”

— Martin Faulks

“evolution can occur through sheer will. Our habits determine the expression of our genes.”

— Adam Burch