Elliott Gould Quotes

Life is a process of evolution.

That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution

The goal of evolution is self - conquest

Life is a process of evolution and anyone who thinks the current world order is OK does not get what evolution is all about.

Evolution is the secret for the next step.

Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.

Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.

The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.

In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.

The tree of life was always there. Evolution just fills in the gaps.

You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going on. First, there was nothing, then there was something; then-I forget the next-I think there were shells, then fishes; then we came-let me see-did we come next? Never mind that; we came at last. And at the next change there will be something very superior to us-something with wings. Ah! That's it: we were fishes, and I believe we shall be crows.

Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution.

Everything has to evolve or else it perishes.

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.

The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness.

Optimization hinders evolution.

Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense; it cares about what works

Evolution happens. There's no football team in the world that has stayed together for time ever more.

Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe.

Natural selection operates according to immediate cirumstances and not toward a long-term goal. Homo sapiens did eventually evolve as a descendant of the first humans, but there was nothing inevitable about it.

There's nothing nonsensical about saying that what would evolve if Darwinian selection has its head is something that you don't want to happen. And I could easily imagine trying to go against Darwinism.

That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change.

Evolution is the most popular way we have for dealing with change.

Evolution is not something to be feared. It's to be celebrated, embraced, and understood.

I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.