Biology Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

Evolution ... is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.

— Ernst Mayr

Evolution is baseless and quite incredible.

— John Ambrose Fleming

Evolving life must experience a vast range of possibilities, based on environmental histories so unpredictable that no realized route - the pathway to consciousness…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for…

— Carl Sagan

The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.

— Stephen Jay Gould

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

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

— Jonas Salk

“evolution can occur through sheer will. Our habits determine the expression of our genes.”

— Adam Burch

The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things…

— Kevin Kelly

I think it's inevitable to evolve if we allow ourselves.

— Alyssa Edwards

I think there's a lot of evolution that's happened in intangible ways, in terms of how I think about the work or how I…

— Adrian Tomine

Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology.

— Steven Pinker