Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal. — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
The unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation. — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
Our lack of community is intensely painful. A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
Occasionally, a great band would come along, like Blondie or OutKast who could be pop and bring interesting ideas into the mainstream… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We find in the history of ideas mutations which do not seem to correspond to any obvious need, and at first sight… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
After observing mutations in fruit flies for many years, Professes Goldschmidt fell into despair. The changes, he lamented, were so hopelessly micro… — Norman Macbeth Copy Share Image
Throughout the book, she refers to herself as "the side effect," which is just totally correct. Cancer kids are essentially side effects… — John Green Copy Share Image
Society never progresses because the majority one day wakes up and says, “Let’s do things differently.” The majority didn’t wake up and… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It may act as an ancillary factor, but by itself, the mutation in tau doesn't give you Alzheimer's disease. This is not… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
In my practice, the majority of mutation carriers choose mastectomy; however, for those without cancer, they have much more control over the… — Kristi Funk Copy Share Image
Sometimes I just think we're not meant to fly halfway around the world in a day. That some kind of mutation is… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
If the oncoming mutation to interstellar immortality is screwed up by the politicians, it will be because those of us who see… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Although I insist that God has always had the power to intervene directly in nature to create new forms, I am willing… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The food you eat is among the most significant factors affecting your genes and pushing them toward cancer by causing mutation or… — Dharma Singh Khalsa Copy Share Image
Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
“You can't stop a soldier from being frightened but you can give him motivation to help him overcome that fear. I have… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
Without equity, pandemic battles will fail. Viruses will simply recirculate, and perhaps undergo mutations or changes that render vaccines useless, passing through… — Laurie Garrett Copy Share Image
As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic traces of… — Del LaGrace Volcano Copy Share Image
