Biology Quote by Francis Crick

One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.

— Brian Eno

Evolutionary biologists have been able to pretend to know how complex biological systems originated only because they treated them as black boxes. Now that…

— Phillip E. Johnson

For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when it proves…

— Nelson Goodman

Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.

— Richard P. Feynman

I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.

— Linus Pauling

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

To my mind, the theory of [evolution] does not stand up at all. If living matter is not, then, caused by the interplay of…

— Henry Lipson

Experience has shown that science frequently develops most fruitfully once we learn to examine the things that seem the simplest, instead of those that…

— Marvin Minsky

I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait and hope…

— Richard Dawkins

The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes…

— Phillip E. Johnson

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 feature of living matter that most demands explanation is that it is almost unimaginably complicated in directions that convey a powerful illusion of…

— Richard Dawkins