Mutations Quotes

41 quotes by 35 authors

In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of random mutations plus… — Arthur Koestler
The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other… — Roland Barthes
We add that it would be all too easy to object that mutations have no evolutionary effect because they are eliminated by natural selection. Lethal… — Pierre-Paul Grasse
It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that youâ€™re capable of far more than… — Paulo Coelho
First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes. — Daniel Nathans
In Darwin's theory, you just have to substitute 'mutations' for his 'slight accidental variations' (just as quantum theory substitutes 'quantum jump' for 'continuous transfer of… — Erwin Schrodinger
Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising — Robert Smithson
Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one mutation make a… — Lynn Margulis
The accumulation of genetic mutations were touted to be enough to change one species to anotherâ€¦.No. It wasnâ€™t dishonesty. I think it was wish fulfillment… — Lynn Margulis
Sickness is the natural state in which we humans reside. We occasionally fall into brief brackets of health, only to return to our fevers, our… — Lauren Slater
Cancer is really a slew of rare diseases. Lung cancer has 700 sub-types, breast cancer has 30,000 mutations which means that every cancer in its… — Patrick Soon-Shiong
No matter how numerous they may be, mutations do not produce any kind of evolution. — Pierre-Paul Grasse
After observing mutations in fruit flies for many years, Professes Goldschmidt fell into despair. The changes, he lamented, were so hopelessly micro [insignificant] that if… — Norman Macbeth
Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apartâ€”the mutations that make us the sort of creature… — Elizabeth Kolbert
The tragedy of a species becoming unfit for life by over-evolving one ability is not confined to humankind. Thus it is thought, for instance, that… — Peter Wessel Zapffe
The messages that DNA molecules contain are all but eternal when seen against the time scale of individual lifetimes. The lifetimes of DNA messages give… — Richard Dawkins
Fundamentalism in most of its forms is the active creation of antibodies to some threatening [god] virus. As long as threatening religions or mutations [heresies]… — Darrel Ray
This seems highly likely, especially as it has been shown that in several systems mutations affecting the same amino acid are extremely near together on… — Francis Crick
A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a protein… — Francis Crick
Exploitation, mutilation, mutations, confirmation to the evils of the world. — Stevie Wonder

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