Evolution Quote by Terry Pratchett

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very…

— Terry Pratchett

For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.

— Michael Crichton

Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were…

— George Gaylord Simpson

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

— Gerald Edelman

The way to understand how different species evolved is to think about the niches that they fill in an ecosystem - basically, how they…

— Steven Pinker

Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how…

— Phillip E. Johnson

Species evolve to meet the environment. An intelligent species changes the environment to suit itself. As soon as a species becomes intelligent, it should…

— Larry Niven

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

— Jonas Salk

Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as in transformational…

— Ernst Mayr

People don't change so much as they evolve, and this evolution tends to be towards what, deep within, they were all along.

— TJay Taylor

It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in…

— Kevin Kelly

Nature is as it is because this is the only possible nature consistent with itself.

— Geoffrey Chew