You are a side effect of an evolutionary process that…

“All life is a mutation.”

— Stacey Brutger

Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal.

— Rebecca Skloot

Having blue eyes is actually a mutation. Before the mutation occurred, all humans had brown eyes.

— Anonymous

The unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation.

— Margaret Chan

Our lack of community is intensely painful. A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew each Sabbath…

— David James Duncan

The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some new mutation…

— Julian Huxley

Occasionally, a great band would come along, like Blondie or OutKast who could be pop and bring interesting ideas into the mainstream at the…

— Johnny Marr

Choose your mutations carefully...

— Mark Mothersbaugh

The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for…

— Carl Sagan

We find in the history of ideas mutations which do not seem to correspond to any obvious need, and at first sight appear as…

— Arthur Koestler

The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body,…

— Nicole Brossard

After observing mutations in fruit flies for many years, Professes Goldschmidt fell into despair. The changes, he lamented, were so hopelessly micro [insignificant] that…

— Norman Macbeth

Throughout the book, she refers to herself as "the side effect," which is just totally correct. Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the…

— John Green

“Even the voice of conscience undergoes mutation.”

— Stanisław Jerzy Lec

Society never progresses because the majority one day wakes up and says, “Let’s do things differently.” The majority didn’t wake up and say, “Oh,…

— Marianne Williamson