Biology Quote by Herbert Simon

Evolution is a process of creating patterns of increasing order....I believe that it's the evolution of patterns that constitutes the ultimate story of our…

— Ray Kurzweil

Evolution is a process of constant branching and expansion.

— 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

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

— Jonas Salk

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 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 evolution of cultures appears to follow the pattern of the evolution of species. The many different forms of culture which arise correspond to…

— B. F. Skinner

I have come to recognize evolution not only as an active process that I am experiencing at the time, but as something I can…

— Jonas Salk

Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Mosts scientist are unable to arrive at a specific definition of biological evolution. “Biological evolution is… change in the properties of populations of organisms…

— Douglas J. Futuyma

The general direction of evolution is to produce a serially imprinting, multibrained creature able to decipher its own program, create the technology to leave…

— Timothy Leary

...evolution is the gradual development and stratification of progressive series of wholes, stretching from the inorganic beginnings to the highest level of spiritual creation.

— Jan Smuts