Choose your mutations carefully...

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

I know that the human condition will be radically changed through technical means. Much of this change will be painful, monstrous and horrible. Most…

— Bruce Sterling

“Right. Mutation is the trigger that moves evolution forward. So, how do mutations happen?”

— Koji Suzuki

First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes.

— Daniel Nathans

Every batch of sperm represents an opportunity for genetic typos - called de novo mutations - to be passed on. A 20-year-old man and…

— Jeffrey Kluger

Mutations are exciting. They try to fix 'em when they come out. Did you see the two-headed baby they killed last month when they…

— Doug Stanhope

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,…

— Mark Stoneking

Mutations are exciting, there aren't nearly enough of them.

— Doug Stanhope

How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by…

— John Smith

I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed…

— Lynn Margulis

“The bradys must hold that, on the average, cumulative selection has to add a little information to the genome at each step. But of…

— Lee Spetner

I think, with every kind of creature and every kind of human, there is no better. We're all just mutations, and I think that…

— Arca

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

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

Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one mutation make…

— Lynn Margulis