Able Quote by John Maynard Smith

I'm very interested in the evolution of technology, and it's really the idea of artificial life which intrigues me, more than just intelligence -…

— Dan Simmons

The central problem of biological evolution is the nature of mutation, but hitherto the occurrence of this has been wholly refractory and impossible to…

— Hermann Joseph Muller

You must always be able to predict what's next and then have the flexibility to evolve.

— Marc Benioff

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 the phenomenon of change and the challenge of the next time cycle will involve the creation of constructs that will provide the…

— Anthony Braxton

New laws, new kinds of things can emerge as the universe evolves. The more moving parts you have in something, the more possibilities there…

— Adam Frank

If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex…

— Seth Lloyd

Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process

— Gerald Edelman

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

— Brian Eno

“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

That there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is directed is…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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