Biology Quote by James Lovelock

Life clearly does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with…

— James Lovelock

The basic pattern of life is a network. Whenever you see life, you see networks. The whole planet, what we can term 'Gaia' is…

— Fritjof Capra

“Gaia is a thin spherical shell of matter that surrounds the incandescent interior; it begins where the crustal rocks meet the magma of the…

— James Lovelock

“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

“Nature [provides] with the excitement of the dance in the interest of the reproduction of the species.”

— Pitigrilli

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

Life is a process of evolution.

— Leroy Hood

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 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

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

— Jonas Salk

No intelligent supervisor, no mystic force, no conscious controlling agency swings the molecules into place at the right time, chooses the appropriate players, closes…

— Paul Davies