Evolution is never gentle.
Bel'Veth, the Empress of the Void in League of LegendsIf there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, it expands to new territories and crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously.
Jurassic Park, by Ian MalcolmEvolution is a process of constant branching and expansion.
Stephen Jay GouldThrough the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.
Robert NozickThere are no shortcuts in evolution.
Louis D. BrandeisThe theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
Richard DawkinsExtinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
Carl Sagan