Jello Biafra Quotes

With evolution, things are always changing, so I sort of think: Should we all be growing three heads?

There are no shortcuts in evolution.

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

Evolution is cleverer than you are.

What humans can't engineer, evolution can.

If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.

It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.

No human can design a good enzyme, yet we are surrounded by them after 3.5 billion years of work by evolution.

A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose.

We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.

I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence.

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.

Natural selection is not evolution.

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.

I remember my first lecture on my first day in evolutionary biology, how populations and species change. I sat thinking, 'Why doesn't everyone know this?' I look back on it almost in horror: I came so close to not knowing how exciting our world is.

Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.

Our physiological constitution is obviously a product of Darwinian processes, insofar as you buy the evolutional theory as a generative, as an account of the mechanism that generated us. Our physiology evolved, our behaviors evolved, and our accounts of those behaviors, both successful and unsuccessful, evolved.

Evolution is all about looking forward.

We share deep admiration for evolution, a force of Nature that has led to the finest chemistry of all time, and to all living things on this planet.

Evolution, to me, is the best designer of all time.

We're not the best, but we happen to be what evolution came up with.

This fundamental subject of Natural Selection will be treated at some length in the fourth chapter; and we shall then see how Natural Selection almost inevitably causes much Extinction of the less improved forms of life and induces what I have called Divergence of Character.

The essence of Darwinism lies in its claim that natural selection creates the fit. Variation is ubiquitous and random in direction. It supplies raw material only. Natural selection directs the course of evolutionary change.