Biology Quote by Thomas Huxley

The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that…

— Henry M. Morris

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

— Gerald Edelman

“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

Evolution is a process of constant branching and expansion.

— Stephen Jay Gould

...evolution is the gradual development and stratification of progressive series of wholes, stretching from the inorganic beginnings to the highest level of spiritual creation.

— Jan Smuts

In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the universal occurrence…

— E. O. Wilson

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

— Arthur Keith

Evolution in nature is not opposed to the notion of Creation, because evolution presupposes the creation of beings that evolve.

— Pope Francis

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

— Terry Pratchett

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

Evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation, because evolution requires the creation of beings that evolve.

— Pope Francis

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