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• Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.

  Richard Dawkins

  Selfish, Opposites, Society

  "The Blind Watchmaker". Book by Richard Dawkins, 1986.

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• 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.

  Salman Rushdie

  Religious, Art, Real

  "Salman Rushdie: ‘I Stand With Charlie Hebdo, as We All Must’". blogs.wsj.com. January 07, 2015.

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• Mutations are exciting, there aren't nearly enough of them.

  Doug Stanhope

  Enough, Exciting

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• Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal.

  Rebecca Skloot

  Cells, Viruses, Immortal Life

  Rebecca Skloot (2011). “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”, p.161, Pan Macmillan

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• Choose your mutations carefully...

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  "Mutate, don't stagnate: Mark Mothersbaugh in conversation". Interview with Shelley Salant, www.metrotimes.com. September 28, 2016.

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• 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 a thousand mutations were combined in one specimen, there would still be no new species.

  Norman Macbeth

  Years, Fruit Flies, Despair

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• Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart—the mutations that make us the sort of creature that could wipe out its nearest relative, then dig up its bones and reassemble its genome.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Lying, Keys, Dna

  Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.145, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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

  Art, Destruction, All Things

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.100, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• When it comes to the whole debate today over evolution versus creation, Jesus affirmed the early chapters of Genesis were accurate when He said, "Have you not read, that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female" (Matthew 19:4). Adam and Eve didn't come on the scene after billions of years of mutations and evolution. No. God created them all the way back in the beginning-just like Moses reported in the Book of Genesis.

  Charlie Campbell

  Bible, Jesus, Book

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• Every mutation through a new combination of genetic factors that provides the organism with a new opportunity for coming to terms with the conditions of its environment signifies no more and no less than that new information about this environment has got into that organic system. Adaptation is essentially a cognitive process.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Opportunity, Information, Evolution

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• Mutations are exciting. They try to fix 'em when they come out. Did you see the two-headed baby they killed last month when they tried to cut it apart? That was hilarious!

  Doug Stanhope

  Funny, Baby, Humor

  "Doug Stanhope: Deadbeat Hero". Comedy, 2004.

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• 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.

  Elvis Costello

  Thinking, Journey, Ideas

  "Summit Talk". Option magazine Interview with Tom Waits, tomwaitsfan.com. July 1989.

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• At least 15 percent of human females possess a genetic mutation that gives them an extra (fourth) type of color photoreceptor - and this allows them to discriminate between colors that look identical to the majority of us with a mere three types of color photoreceptors.

  David Eagleman

  Color, Giving, Female

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.54, Vintage

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• 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.

  Francisco J. Ayala

  Majority, Generations, Genes

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• 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.

  B. F. Skinner

  Different, Culture, Patterns

  B.F Skinner (2012). “Science And Human Behavior”, p.434, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  B. F. Skinner

  Reinforcement, Behavior, Natural

  B.F Skinner (1965). “Science And Human Behavior”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Andrew Bird

  Thinking, Around The World, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

  Kevin Myers

  Hollywood, Popcorn, Cinema

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• 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 pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations.

  Roland Barthes

  Art, Progress, Doe

  Roland Barthes (1994). “Roland Barthes”

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• 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 energy'). In all other respects little change was necessary in Darwin's theory...

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Energy, Variation, Littles

  "What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell". Book by Erwin Schrodinger, 1944.

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• 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!

  Ben Stein

  Jobs, Two, Years

  Fox News Documentary, April 14, 2008.

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• Mankind will someday realize that we are actually in contact with the dead and with the other world, whatever it is; right now we could predict, if we only exerted enough mental will, what is going to happen within the next hundred years and be able to take steps to avoid all kinds of catastrophes. When a man dies he undergoes a mutation in his brain that we know nothing about now but which will be very clear someday if scientists get on the ball. The bastards right now are only interested in seeing if they can blow up the world.

  Jack Kerouac

  Men, Blow, Years

  Jack Kerouac (1995). “The Portable Jack Kerouac”, Viking Adult

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• 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 mutations (the worst kind) are effectively eliminated, but others persist as alleles. ...Mutants are present within every population, from bacteria to man. There can be no doubt about it. But for the evolutionist, the essential lies elsewhere: in the fact that mutations do not coincide with evolution.

  Pierre-Paul Grasse

  Lying, Men, Doubt

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• As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic traces of my body. I name myself. A gender abolitionist. A part time gender terrorist. An intentional mutation and intersex by design, (as opposed to diagnosis), in order to distinguish my journey from the thousands of intersex individuals who have had their 'ambiguous' bodies mutilated and disfigured in a misguided attempt at 'normalization'. I believe in crossing the line as many times as it takes to build a bridge we can all walk across.

  Del LaGrace Volcano

  Believe, Technology, Journey

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• 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.

  James F. Cooper

  Variables, Language, Results

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James F. Cooper, 1838.

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