Aspect Quote by Jean-Marie Lehn

Evolution has just been dealt its death blow. After reading Origins of Life with my background in chemistry and physics, it is clear that…

— Richard Smalley

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

“Life on earth evolved gradually beginning with one primitive life form – perhaps a self-replicating molecule – that lived more than 3.5 billion years…

— Jerry A. Coyne

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

We know from astronomy that the universe had a beginning, from physics that the future is both open and unpredictable, from geology and paleontology…

— Kenneth R. Miller

As a general rule, biology tends to be conservative. It's rare that evolution 'invents' the same process several times.

— Gero Miesenbock

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

— Nina Fedoroff

“There are no detailed Darwinian accounts for the evolution of any fundamental biochemical or cellular system, only a variety of wishful speculations [Article :…

— James A. Shapiro

Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the whole evolved…

— Mark Twain

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

— Ernst Mayr

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.

— Anonymous

The essence of Darwinism lies in its claim that natural selection creates the fit. Variation is ubiquitous and random in direction. It supplies raw…

— Stephen Jay Gould