Best Mutation Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

“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 chance mutations.”

Ifs Chance Depends Unique Genes Mutation

Author:Frank B. Salisbury

“We find in the history of ideas mutations which do not seem to correspond to any obvious need, and at first sight appear as mere playful whimsies such as Apollonius' work on conic sections, or the non-Euclidean geometries, whose practical value became apparent only later.”

Needs Firsts Ideas Seems Values Sight Mere Obvious Practicals Sections Geometry Mutation Whimsy

Author:Arthur Koestler

“We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates our birth as a biological species and stretches back over many thousand millennia... Going further back, we share a common ancestry with our fellow primates; and going still further back, we share a common ancestry with all other living creatures and plants down to the simplest microbe. The further back we go, the greater the difference from external appearances and behavior patterns which we observe today.”

“Yes, I spent two long years, traveling all over the United States, all over Europe, interviewing many, many, many people who had been thrown out of their academic jobs because they taught that there was a possibility of life coming from something other than Darwinism, who thought that possibly random selection and mutations didn't account for the universe, didn't account for gravity, didn't account for why nobody had ever seen an individual species evolve - no one's ever seen an individual species evolve!”

People Years Long Two States Jobs Universe Individual United United States Possibility Taught Europe Accounts Species Evolve Thrown Academic Gravity Selection Darwinism Mutation

Author:Ben Stein

“Many words are in a state of mutation, the pronunciation being unsettled even in the best society, a result that must often arise where language is as variable and undetermined as the English.”

States Language Results Arise Variables Mutation Pronunciation

Author:James F. Cooper

“Society never progresses because the majority one day wakes up and says, “Let’s do things differently.” The majority didn’t wake up and say, “Oh, let’s just free the slaves.” ... Society always progressed because a relatively small group of people — usually considered outrageous radicals by the status quo of their time — had a better idea and articulated another way. That’s simply how evolution works; it’s the mutation — the member of the species who does things differently - that points the way to the future because they’re better adapted for survival.”

“Programmed by quanta, physics gave rise first to chemistry and then to life; programmed by mutations and recombination, life gave rise to Shakespeare; programmed by experience and imagination, Shakespeare gave rise to Hamlet.”

Firsts Imagination Physics Chemistry Quantum Quantum Physics Mutation

Author:Seth Lloyd

“We are embedded in the great evolutionary story of planet Earth, the spare, elegant process of mutation and selection and bricolage. And this means that we are anything but alone.”

Mean Stories Earth Process Planets Spares Selection Elegant Planet Earth Embedded Mutation

Book:The Sacred Depths of Nature

Source: The Sacred Depths of Nature

“A decade or so ago, all over the world, cinemas underwent one of those prince-into-frog mutations, and became, instead popcorn-restaurants, which offered the option of visual diversions for diners.”

World Film Hollywood Decades Cinema Restaurants Visuals Frogs Popcorn Diversion Mutation Diners

Author:Kevin Myers

“Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today. I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity. 'Respect for religion' has become a code phrase meaning 'fear of religion.' Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.”

“How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.”

Ifs Should Chance Generations Moved Accidents Atoms Mutation Fortuitous

Book:Select discourses

Source: Select discourses

“If the oncoming mutation to interstellar immortality is screwed up by the politicians, it will be because those of us who see the opportunities in modern science are not adroit enough to outmaneuver the forces of inertia, stupidity and greed. Well, if we're not intelligent enough to overcome such obstacles, then we don't deserve to carry off the mutation at this stage of evolution.”

“The differences you perceive between Humans-between groups of Humans-are the result of isolation and inbreeding, mutation, and adaptation to different Earth environments”

Humans Different Earth Differences Results Environment Groups Perceive Isolation Adaptation Mutation Inbreeding

Book:Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago

Source: Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago

“In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms.”

Normal Worms Normal Life Mutation Life Span

Author:Cynthia Kenyon

“You would think that UV just causes mutations, but it doesn't, you need a gene to be active for it.”

Thinking Needs Causes Active Genes Mutation

Author:Cynthia Kenyon

“I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence.”

Taught Evidence Species Accumulation Mutation Genetic Mutation

Author:Lynn Margulis

“... we find ourselves facing a rising tide of biologically active, synthetic organic chemicals. Some tinker with our hormones. Some attach themselves to our chromosomes and trigger mutations. Some cripple the immune system. Some light up our genes and so enhance the production of certain enzymes. If we could metabolize these chemicals into completely benign breakdown products and excrete them, they would pose less of a hazard. Instead, a good many of them accumulate.”

“Anything that has to travel all the way down from your cerebellum to your fingertips, there's a lot of things that can happen on the journey. Sometimes I'll listen to records, my own stuff, and I think god, the original idea for this was so much better than the mutation that we arrived at.”

Thinking Way Ideas Sometimes Happens Stuff My Own Records Journey Originals Fingertips Original Ideas Mutation

Author:Elvis Costello

“Sometimes I just think we're not meant to fly halfway around the world in a day. That some kind of mutation is going to happen.”

Thinking World Kind Sometimes Happens Around The World Halfway Mutation

Author:Andrew Bird

“We have seen that in certain respects operant reinforcement resembles the natural selection of evolutionary theory. Just as genetic characteristics which arise as mutations are selected or discarded by their consequences, so novel forms of behavior are selected or discarded through reinforcement.”

Form Certain Natural Novel Theory Behavior Consequence Arise Characteristics Selection Natural Selection Selected Discarded Mutation Reinforcement

Book:Science And Human Behavior

Source: Science And Human Behavior

“The evolution of cultures appears to follow the pattern of the evolution of species. The many different forms of culture which arise correspond to the "mutations" of genetic theory. Some forms prove to be effective under prevailing circumstances and others not, and the perpetuation of the culture is determined accordingly.”

Different Form Culture Theory Evolution Circumstances Prove Species Patterns Determined Arise Prevailing Mutation

Book:Science And Human Behavior

Source: Science And Human Behavior

“It is probably fair to estimate the frequency of a majority of mutations, in higher organisms, between one in ten thousand and one in a million per gene per generation.”

Millions Generations Higher Thousand Ten Fairs Majority Genes Organisms Frequency Mutation One In A Million

Author:Francisco J. Ayala

“Choose your mutations carefully...”

Mutation

Author:Mark Mothersbaugh

“The food you eat is among the most significant factors affecting your genes and pushing them toward cancer by causing mutation or disruption in their function. That is, what you eat can either prevent cancer and other chronic illnesses or help cause them.”

Helping Causes Function Cancer Illness Significant Factors Pushing Genes Disruption Chronic Illness Mutation

Book:Food As Medicine: How to Use Diet, Vitamins, Juices, and Herbs for a Healthier, Happier, and Longer Life

Source: Food As Medicine: How to Use Diet, Vitamins, Juices, and Herbs for a Healthier, Happier, and Longer Life

“I know that the human condition will be radically changed through technical means. Much of this change will be painful, monstrous and horrible. Most mutations are disgusting failures, most experiments are failures. I accept this and I don't find it frightening.”

Knows Humans Mean Accepting Conditions Changed Painful Experiments Horrible Human Condition Disgusting Frightening Monstrous Mutation

Author:Bruce Sterling

“Nearly every BRCA mutation carrier's main concern is how to avoid the fate of relatives who have had, and possibly died from, breast or ovarian cancer.”

Fate Concern Died Cancer Breasts Carrier Mutation Ovarian Cancer

Author:Kristi Funk

“The Angelina Effect refers to the fact that a powerful, beautiful, well-respected and world-renowned woman unabashedly revealed private medical details about a gene mutation which affects 1 in 500 people. In so doing, she raised awareness and sparked conversations around the world amongst known BRCA carriers, possible carriers, and the circle of family and friends who care about them.”

“It is absolutely a good thing that she [Angelina Jolie] helped to educate the world about the existence of this mutation; hopefully, as a result, more compassionate understanding exists regarding the choices BRCA carriers must face.”

World Faces Choices Understanding Results Existence Good Things Hopefully Compassionate Educate Carrier Mutation

Author:Kristi Funk

“In my practice, the majority of mutation carriers choose mastectomy; however, for those without cancer, they have much more control over the timing. For younger women, we might wait until they have found a life partner, or until after childbearing. Older women who find out they carry a mutation have unwittingly escaped a large percentage of their risk, and therefore, the calculated future risk is not necessarily a daunting number.”

Might Found Waiting Numbers Practice Risk Majority Cancer Partners Timing Percentages Carrier Mutation Older Women Life Partner Childbearing Mastectomy

Author:Kristi Funk

“Cancer can no longer be classified according to the organ in which it arises. It has to be characterized in terms of the genetic mutation that exists.”

Term Cancer Arise Organs Mutation Genetic Mutation

Author:Laurie Glimcher

“Occasionally, a great band would come along, like Blondie or OutKast who could be pop and bring interesting ideas into the mainstream at the same time. That's now gone, because of this weird mutation of pop, rap, R&B, bad rave, and supposedly soulful singing on top of it.”

Ideas Interesting Gone Band Singing Pops Rap Mainstream Soulful Mutation Rave Interesting Ideas Blondie Outkast

Author:Johnny Marr

“Audio virology is not a metaphor. It is to be taken literally. It maps real processes of mutation, transmission, contagion and memory within music culture.”

Real Culture Process Memories Taken Metaphor Maps Transmission Mutation Contagion Audio Music Culture

Author:Kode9

“When you get sick with the flu you get infected with flu viruses and they make lots of new flu viruses, but those new viruses are not exact copies of the old ones. They have mutations in them. A lot of those mutations are harmful.”

Sick Copies Viruses Flu Mutation

Author:Carl Zimmer

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