Mutation Quotes

70 quotes by 58 authors

In agriculture, people have taken wild plants that can't be eaten by people - and turned them into wonderful food sources. And that's because genomes… — Nina Fedoroff
There's almost no food that isn't genetically modified. Genetic modification is the basis of all evolution. Things change because our planet is subjected to a… — Nina Fedoroff
Although I insist that God has always had the power to intervene directly in nature to create new forms, I am willing to be per-suaded… — Phillip E. Johnson
Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random. — Richard Dawkins
The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body, animal,… — Nicole Brossard
Without equity, pandemic battles will fail. Viruses will simply recirculate, and perhaps undergo mutations or changes that render vaccines useless, passing through the unprotected populations… — Laurie Garrett
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
If life really depends on each gene being as unique as it appears to be, then it is too unique to come into being by… — Frank B. Salisbury
Every batch of sperm represents an opportunity for genetic typos - called de novo mutations - to be passed on. A 20-year-old man and woman… — Jeffrey Kluger
I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway. — James Lovelock
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to… — Bertrand Russell
World, world, O world! But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee/ Life would not yield to age. — William Shakespeare
Our lack of community is intensely painful. A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew each Sabbath is… — David James Duncan
If you ever meet a guy and you fall in love with him, but because of some weird genetic mutation he doesn't seem to return… — Ann Brashares
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,… — Iain Banks
In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than… — Michael Behe
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
Throughout the book, she refers to herself as "the side effect," which is just totally correct. Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless… — John Green
Science fiction [is] the kind of writing that prepares us for the necessary mutations brought about in society from an ever changing technological world and… — Walter Mosley
There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject. — Walter Raleigh

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