Accidents Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

“All disciplines of science are built on the causality of the relationships governing related events. Yet the theory of evolution is built upon the…

— T.H. Janabi

“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

“To be such a complicated, myterious piece of biological machinery! That is a special thing, unprecedented in all of evolutionary history. Our ability to…

— Veronica Roth

Evolution ... is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.

— Ernst Mayr

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

— Gerald Edelman

The pathways that have led to our evolution are quirky, improbable, unrepeatable and utterly unpredictable.

— Stephen Jay Gould

“There is no such thing as perfection, only the relentless, thirsty matching of an organism to its environment. That is the engine that drives…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

When things get bad enough, then something happens to correct the course. And it's for that reason that I speak about evolution as an…

— Jonas Salk

We need merely understand that the evolutionary process is neither random nor determined but creative. It follows the general pattern of all creativity. While…

— Thomas Berry

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

— Nils Heribert-Nilsson

We may... have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them closer and…

— Thomas Kuhn

“We do not inhabit a perfected world where natural selection ruthlessly scrutinizes all organic structures and then molds them for optimal utility. Organisms inherit…

— Stephen Jay Gould