Modification Quotes

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Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I don't know, but… — Tony Blair
We are completely unaware of our true nature because we identify ourselves with our body, our emotions and our thoughts, thus losing sight of our… — Jean Klein
All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race has long been placed, and… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
The succession of individuals, connected by reproduction and belonging to a species, makes it possible for the specific form itself to last for ages. In… — Ernst Haeckel
... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly do all changes… — Henry Walter Bates
In this century, not only has science changed the world faster than ever, but in new and different ways. Targeted drugs, genetic modification, artificial intelligence,… — Martin Rees
Exercising the right of occasional suppression and slight modification, it is truly absurd to see how plastic a limited number of observations become, in the… — Francis Galton
"Pieces" almost always appear 'as parts' in whole processes. ... To sever a "'part" from the organized whole in which it occurs-whether it itself be… — Max Wertheimer
If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by… — George Washington
We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an equal quantity of… — Antoine Lavoisier
Increased knowledge of heredity means increased power of control over the living thing, and as we come to understand more and more the architecture of… — Reginald Punnett
I welcome opposing viewpoints, but I should warn you that you'll be facing off against the 2nd-place finisher at the 1981 Charleston County High-School Debate… — Stephen Colbert
I do not think that any thorough-going modification of college curriculum would be possible without a modification of the methods of instruction. — John Dewey
It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are founded the laws which determine… — Georges Cuvier
It is vitally important that we can continue to say, with absolute conviction, that organic farming delivers the highest quality, best-tasting food, produced without artificial… — Prince Charles
I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification. — Lady Gaga
Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
It's time for the bully pulpit of the White House to bring the gangstas in, put them around the table and let them know that… — Maxine Waters
These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy… — John Kenneth Galbraith
It would be well for those interested to reflect whether there now exists, or ever has existed, a wealthy and civilized community in which one… — John C. Calhoun

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