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7. I assumed he meant it in the philosophical sense

Not biological evolution. I was surprised by the quote but a cursory scan of the net suggests that he is the source. Anyway he was not a biologist. I don't think he wandered outside engineering much. People make goofy analogies when they go outside their fields.

He probably had some nutty views but I cannot argue with that quote by itself (though I do agree that I don't care for the term evolution used in that style):
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison

Lots of people are vegetarian for lunatic reasons.

AIong those lines, I remember reading about how Jeffrey Epstein used to make grossly unscientific equivalences all the time. But he had so much money that people put up with his creepy and grating personality.