Biology Quote by Matt Ridley

Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they’re not. Everything is moving and changing. In a…

— Michael Crichton

Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular…

— Ayn Rand

“It is the elegance of nature that creates even the appearance of simplicity... It is not respectable to say that an organism is designed…

— Marilynne Robinson

Nature is not static, but causes its own, internally-generated changes - both in climate and in biological systems.

— Roy Spencer

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

— Rudolf Arnheim

The literal record was not a hopelessly and imperfect fraction of truly insensible gradation within large populations but an accurate reflection of the actual…

— Stephen Jay Gould

It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both…

— Ivan Pavlov

The history of life is more adequately represented by a picture of 'punctuated equilibria' than by the notion of phyletic gradualism. The history of…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“It will be noticed that the fundamental theorem proved above bears some remarkable resemblances to the second law of thermodynamics. Both are properties of…

— Ronald A. Fisher

Reality, in its quantitative aspect, must be considered as a system of populations... The general study of the equilibria and dynamics of populations seems…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

[The notion of equilibrium] is a notion which can be employed usefully in varying degrees of looseness. It is an absolutely indispensable part of…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

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

— Richard Dawkins