Biology Quote by T.H. Janabi

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

“For in the ever-repeated origination of highly organized individuals from an infinitesimal germ, the working-out of a prearranged plan of growth and development seems…

— Hans Jonas

The theory [of evolution] is a scientific mistake.

— Louis Agassiz

“Science, even evolutionary science, bases its theories, its predictions, and its conclusions on the stability of physical laws. Evolutionary science makes the mistake of…

— Henry Morris III

“[E]volution is not a cause, but the description of a process … Can we in any way explain the origin of species? Are we…

— Anonymous

The central problem of biological evolution is the nature of mutation, but hitherto the occurrence of this has been wholly refractory and impossible to…

— Hermann Joseph Muller

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.

— Anonymous

It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the…

— Thomas Nagel

I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed…

— Lynn Margulis

History employs evolution to structure biological events in time.

— Stephen Jay Gould

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

— Stephen Jay Gould

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

— Jonas Salk