Biology Quote by Nils Heribert-Nilsson

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

— Gerald Edelman

evolution is a tinkerer, an ad-hocker, and a jury-rigger. It works with what it has on hand, not with what it has in mind.…

— Natalie Angier

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

— Jonas Salk

The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Evolution is baseless and quite incredible.

— John Ambrose Fleming

The evolutionist thesis has become more stringently unthinkable than ever before.

— Wolfgang Smith

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

— Steve Jones

The study of evolution is an evolution in itself.

— Hendrik Poinar

Evolution ... is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.

— Ernst Mayr

The theory [of evolution] is a scientific mistake.

— Louis Agassiz

“You can't separate adaptability from evolution”

— Thabiso Monkoe

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