Biology Quote by Richard Dawkins

The beauty of evolution is that it does provide an explanation of how you can get complexity out of simplicity. It does it by…

— Richard Dawkins

One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.

— Brian Eno

The theory of evolution by natural selection is an ecological theory-founded on ecological observation by perhaps the greatest of all ecologists. It has been…

— Anonymous

“When evolution is turned into an All-encompassing Theory explaining absolutely everything we believe, feel, and do as the product of natural selection, then we…

— Timothy J. Keller

Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is the only workable explanation that has ever been proposed for the remarkable fact of our own…

— John Maynard Smith

I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex…

— Hari Kunzru

Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.

— Walter Lang

Natural Selection is not Evolution. Yet, ever since the two words have been in common use, the theory of Natural Selection has been employed…

— Ronald Fisher

In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the universal occurrence…

— E. O. Wilson

Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information.

— Stephen Jay Gould

This is a general law of the universe, overlooked by science, that out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost say that the…

— Terence McKenna

Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be achieved by…

— Stephen Jay Gould