Time Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The great value of the Darwinian evolutionary paradigm is the way it helps us understand how what once was "noise" (e.g., unselected-uncorrelated variation) can…

— Terrence Deacon

“In neither general nor special Darwinism should the 'strong' be confused for the 'colorful' or the 'noisy,' and the 'selection' process shan't ever stray…

— G Rodrigues

“Perhaps if one less dragonfly had drowned in the Carboniferous swamps, the intelligent organisms on our planet today would have feathers and teach their…

— Carl Sagan

“Darwin- I think the theory is: out of 'chaos' arises something that resembles 'design'. But it's all random.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

“The reason is simply the extreme improbability of the preadaptations necessary for it to occur at all. Each of these evolutionary steps has been…

— Edward O. Wilson

It was Darwin's chief contribution, not only to Biology but to the whole of natural science, to have brought to light a process by…

— Ronald Fisher

“In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe. If creation had been left up to me,…

— Annie Dillard

Evolution ... is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.

— Ernst Mayr

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

— Steve Jones

“A deep understanding of Darwinism teaches us to be wary of the easy assumption that design is the only alternative to chance”

— Richard Dawkins

“... Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism...”

— Eric Chaisson

“Long-term chance evolves from the small and not-so-trivial moments.”

— Anna Akbari