Able Quote by Nina Fedoroff

“Today we are even manipulating the DNA that makes us possible in the first place—a case of evolution evolving new ways to evolve.”

— Chip Walter

The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress.

— Isaac Asimov

The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Evolution is all about looking forward.

— Gerard Pique

As a general rule, biology tends to be conservative. It's rare that evolution 'invents' the same process several times.

— Gero Miesenbock

We can and do control the direction of our own evolution.

— Jasmuheen

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

— Gerald Edelman

History employs evolution to structure biological events in time.

— Stephen Jay Gould

The hold of the evolutionary paradigm is so powerful that an idea which is more like a principle of medieval astrology than a serious…

— Michael Denton

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

— Jonas Salk

These mysteries about how we evolved should not distract us from the indisputable fact that we did evolve.

— Jerry A. Coyne

At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation.

— Stephen Jay Gould