Biology Quote by Jonas Salk

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

— Jonas Salk

“Evolution is no more than the perpetuation of error.”

— Steve Jones

Our aim must be to make our successive mistakes as quickly as possible. To speed up evolution.

— Karl Popper

I just think that we're all humans; we all mess up. It's okay: we should give people room to learn from their mistakes. That's…

— Noel Wells

Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment.

— Richard Dawkins

The theory [of evolution] is a scientific mistake.

— Louis Agassiz

Nature compensates for its mistakes.

— Francine Pascal

Evolution has long been badly taught. In particular, students - and even professional biologists - acquire theories of evolution without any deep understanding of…

— Gregory Bateson

Evolution is good for optimising and that is well understood. But evolution also creates things that no one knew were even possible.

— Frances Arnold

People have always asked whether evolution is constantly driving onwards and upwards. Is there always going to be improvement? The answer is no: evolution…

— Sydney Brenner

Evolution ... is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.

— Ernst Mayr

If it is true that an influx of doubt and uncertainty actually marks periods of healthy growth in a science, then evolutionary biology is…

— Niles Eldredge