Biology Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

...evolution is the gradual development and stratification of progressive series of wholes, stretching from the inorganic beginnings to the highest level of spiritual creation.

— Jan Smuts

Evolution is a process of creating patterns of increasing order…I believe that it's the evolution of patterns that constitutes the ultimate story of our…

— Ray Kurzweil

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

— Gerald Edelman

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

— Jonas Salk

The vigorous branching of life's tree, and not the accumulating valor of mythical marches to progress, lies behind the persistence and expansion of organic…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Evolution is a trajectory through multidimensional space, in which every step of the way has to represent a body capable of surviving and reproducing…

— Richard Dawkins

The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.

— Boris Sidis

The study of evolution is an evolution in itself.

— Hendrik Poinar

Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as in transformational…

— Ernst Mayr

I have come to recognize evolution not only as an active process that I am experiencing at the time, but as something I can…

— Jonas Salk

As a natural process, of the same character as the development of a tree from its seed, or of a fowl from its egg,…

— Thomas Huxley

The simplest scheme of evolution is one that depends on two processes; a generator and a test. The task of the generator is to…

— Herbert Simon