Able Quote by Maurice Wilkins

Natural selection based on the differential multiplication of variant types cannot exist before there is material capable of replicating itself and its own variations,…

— Hermann Joseph Muller

... if variations useful to any organic being do occur, assuredly individuals thus characterized will have the best chance of being perserved in the…

— Charles Darwin

If life really depends on each gene being as unique as it appears to be, then it is too unique to come into being…

— Frank B. Salisbury

Evolutionary plasticity can be purchased only at the ruthlessly dear price of continuously sacrificing some individuals to death from unfavourable mutations. Bemoaning this imperfection…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence,…

— Charles Darwin

“evolution is about reproduction, passing on copies of genes.”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“New mutations don't create new species; they create offspring that are impaired.”

— Lynn Margulis

What you see in living systems, and in genetic systems, is that the genes are already there, having arisen in the course of time,…

— Jonas Salk

In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to…

— E. O. Wilson

The principle of natural selection is absolutely incompatible with the word of God. [It] contradicts the revealed relations of creation to its Creator.

— Samuel Wilberforce

The gene as the basis of life.

— Hermann Joseph Muller

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

— Gerald Edelman