Adapted Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of the most…

— Claude Bernard

Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over time.

— Steven Pinker

One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.

— Kevin Kelly

“Evolution can craft perfectly adapted organisms, but not in an intentional manner: it is not just a "blind watchmaker", but also a forgetful one.…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.

— Francois Jacob

There is in every organism, at whatever level, an underlying flow of movement toward constructive fulfillment of its inherent possibilities.

— Carl Rogers

We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist…

— Wilhelm Ostwald

We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Look at any randomly selected piece of your world. Encoded deep in the biology of every cell in every blade of grass, in every…

— Brian Cox

Evolution ... is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.

— Ernst Mayr

You must always be able to predict what's next and then have the flexibility to evolve.

— Marc Benioff