He calls the environment a Garden of Eden and names the two salamanders his "hopeful monsters."

A successful species always burst into a joyous wave of daughter species, of hopeful monsters that rendered their ancestors obsolete.

Goldschmidt presented two mechanisms for how hopeful monsters might work.

Popper contrasts his views with the notion of the "hopeful monster" that has large phenotype mutations and calls it the "hopeful behavioural monster".

The result of this experimenting can be what biologists call hopeful monsters, halfway creatures ill-suited to thrive but likely to yield superior progeny.

Some creationists have associated Goldschmidt's "hopeful monsters" with the theory of punctuated equilibrium, as proposed by Eldredge and Gould.

There was room in it for a thousand modes of life, a thousand hopeful monsters.

Therefore he had provided his hopeful new monster with a secret weakness, by means of which he would be able to arrange my destruction, if that ever became necessary.

We of the Axis are all hopeful monsters.

Another hopeful monster for the cauldron.