Biology Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

Heredity is to-day the central problem of biology. This problem may be approached from many sides-that of the breeder, the experimenter, the statistician, the…

— Edwin Conklin

Despite some remaining puzzles, there's no reason to doubt that Darwin had this point right, that all creatures on earth are biological relatives

— Michael Behe

Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

— James Mark Baldwin

Increased knowledge of heredity means increased power of control over the living thing, and as we come to understand more and more the architecture…

— Reginald Punnett

“This is implied in the assertion that a man shows certain behavior because he was “born that way.” To object to this is not…

— B.F. Skinner

You put three facts together - that all organisms produce more offspring that can survive, that there's variation among organisms, and that at least…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Evolutionary biologists have been able to pretend to know how complex biological systems originated only because they treated them as black boxes. Now that…

— Phillip E. Johnson

Darwin and his successors have railed against the fallacy of confusing the current utility of a trait with the reason the trait evolved. For…

— Elliott Sober

No one has ever found an organism that is known not to have parents, or a parent. This is the strongest evidence on behalf…

— Tom Bethell

All mammals undergo a certain degree of diversification. Darwin knew that. When he drew a family tree, it had many branches on it.

— Donald Johanson

Heredity is nothing but stored environment.

— Luther Burbank

Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience.

— Trofim Lysenko