Quotes by Mutation Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change... If you disable change, if you effectively stop time, if you prevent the possibility of the alteration of an individual's circumstances — and that must include at least the possibility that they alter for the worse — then you don't have life after death; you just have death. Iain Banks mutationpossibility-of-changedevelopment Many words are in a state of mutation, the pronunciation being unsettled even in the best society, a result that must often arise where language is as variable and undetermined as the English. James F. Cooper mutationvariableslanguage I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway. James Lovelock mutationengineeringworry Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are. Jean Houston mutationintenseconsciousness You are a side effect," Van Houten continued, "of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation. John Green mutationcarereal How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms. John Smith mutationatomsgenerations A decade or so ago, all over the world, cinemas underwent one of those prince-into-frog mutations, and became, instead popcorn-restaurants, which offered the option of visual diversions for diners. Kevin Myers mutationpopcornhollywood Every mutation through a new combination of genetic factors that provides the organism with a new opportunity for coming to terms with the conditions of its environment signifies no more and no less than that new information about this environment has got into that organic system. Adaptation is essentially a cognitive process. Konrad Lorenz mutationinformationopportunity Nearly every BRCA mutation carrier's main concern is how to avoid the fate of relatives who have had, and possibly died from, breast or ovarian cancer. Kristi Funk mutationcancerfate It is absolutely a good thing that she [Angelina Jolie] helped to educate the world about the existence of this mutation; hopefully, as a result, more compassionate understanding exists regarding the choices BRCA carriers must face. Kristi Funk mutationunderstandingchoices Sickness is the natural state in which we humans reside. We occasionally fall into brief brackets of health, only to return to our fevers, our infections, our rapid, minute mutations, which take us toward death even as they evolve us, as a species, into some ill-defined future. Lauren Slater mutationfeverfall Cancer can no longer be classified according to the organ in which it arises. It has to be characterized in terms of the genetic mutation that exists. Laurie Glimcher mutationcancerarise The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive. Lionel Trilling mutationacceptanceself The accumulation of genetic mutations were touted to be enough to change one species to another….No. It wasn’t dishonesty. I think it was wish fulfillment and social momentum. Assumptions, made but not verified, were taught as fact. Lynn Margulis mutationwishthinking 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. Lynn Margulis mutationaccumulationtaught The unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation. Margaret Chan mutationvirusesunique All things are changing; and thou thyself art in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction and the whole universe to. Marcus Aurelius mutationdestructionart Choose your mutations carefully... Mark Mothersbaugh mutation D.N.A. sequences change by mutations, and the idea behind the molecular clock is that those changes occur at, more or less, a constant rate, over time. Mark Stoneking mutationclockideas In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than we thought, but still possible. Such an appeal to brute luck can never be refuted... Luck is metaphysical speculation; scientific explanations invoke causes. Michael Behe mutationserendipityluck«123»
