Definite Quote by Herbert Spencer

“Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion during which the matter passes from an indefinite incoherent homogeneity to a definite…

— Herbert Spencer

“Evolution is a trajectory through multidimensional space, in which every step of the way has to represent a body capable of surviving and reproducing…

— Richard Dawkins

Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as in transformational…

— Ernst Mayr

In the broadest sense, evolution is merely change, and so is all-pervasive; galaxies, languages, and political systems all evolve. Biological evolution ... is change…

— Douglas J. Futuyma

Evolution is a process of constant branching and expansion.

— Stephen Jay Gould

...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

New knowledge has led to the recognition in the theory of evolution of more than a hypothesis. It is indeed remarkable that this theory…

— Pope John Paul II

The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.

— Boris Sidis

The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.

— Ray Kurzweil

We may... have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them closer and…

— Thomas Kuhn

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 thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.

— Ernst Mayr