Biology Quote by Frances Arnold

Optimization hinders evolution.

— Alan Perlis

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

— Jonas Salk

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

— Gerald Edelman

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

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

Our aim must be to make our successive mistakes as quickly as possible. To speed up evolution.

— Karl Popper

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

In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution.

— Nina Fedoroff

Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new…

— Bill Nye

Evolution is your solution.

— Triple H

A close inspection discovers an empirical impossibility to be inherent in the idea of evolution.

— Nils Heribert-Nilsson

When things get bad enough, then something happens to correct the course. And it's for that reason that I speak about evolution as an…

— Jonas Salk