Adaptation Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

“You can't separate adaptability from evolution”

— Thabiso Monkoe

Evolution is baseless and quite incredible.

— John Ambrose Fleming

A close inspection discovers an empirical impossibility to be inherent in the idea of evolution.

— Nils Heribert-Nilsson

“I am suggesting here that organisms have a built-I capability of adapting to their environment. I am suggesting that to the extent that evolution…

— Lee Spetner

“Evolution is more about adaptivity than adaptability.”

— Raheel Farooq

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

— Gerald Edelman

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

evolution is a tinkerer, an ad-hocker, and a jury-rigger. It works with what it has on hand, not with what it has in mind.…

— Natalie Angier

Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable.

— Arthur Keith

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

— Jonas Salk

“Only a minority of biologists today hold that the variation of evolution cannot be random. In this point the minority are on more solid…

— Lee Spetner

Given that evolution is a fact, this lack of evolution needs to be explained.

— J. William Schopf