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A mutation can create an alternative form of a phenomenon - a phenotype or trait - and we can learn a lot by seeing this alternative state. Once I saw a mouse with no eyelids. It simply had a membrane over the eyes. I found it fascinating that there is a single gene required for eyelids to develop.
The Human is the most insane species
The freaks shall inherit the earth.
I wonder if evolution wasn't from ape to man, but from insane to sane.
There are men from whom nature or some peculiar destiny has removed the cover beneath which we hide our own madness. They are likethin-skinned insects whose visible play of muscles seem to make them deformed, though in fact, everything soon turns to its normal shape again.
I am part-demon, part-human. What else does that make me?" She answered his question with one of her own.
"I am part-centaur, part-human. Does that make me a mutant?"
"It makes you a miracle."
She held his gaze. "Exactly.
If by 'miracle kids' you mean innocent test-tube babies whose DNA was forcibly unraveled and merged with two percent avian genes, yeah, I guess that would be us," I said. "Because it's a miracle that we're not complete nut jobs and mutant disasters.
The obscure unease that Pluto has always inspired, a dog owned by a mouse, daily confronted with the mutational horror of Goofy.
All invincible and stuff
I'd lean more toward werewolves. Wolves are cool.
Monsters are made
Men with wings. Angels of the Apocalypse. Supernatural beings who've pulverized the modern world and killed millions, maybe even billions, of people. And here's one of the horrors, right in front of me.
Rats. Rats, mice, and rodents.
Yes, I call your beautiful world mutant and perverse. So would you if you had seen the original. If you had, you would know how far we've all veered, how like a cancer things have grown.
That great, mighty current of evolution which is advancing the life of everything in creation is simply invincible - no one can resist it.
We live in a world defined by uniformity but still identify ourselves by our mutations.
There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
It's unnatural selection
Their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals.
Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that interest us are not definite products of specific mutations but emergent phenomena arising from extremely complex interactions between genes, environment, and life experience.
We are a fluke of nature, a quirk of evolution, a glorious contingency.
I'm not going to play my violin, but with my dwarfism, I'm a bit of a mutant.
I'm quite mad by nature, and it's my craziness that has saved me from extinction.
Chance leads to discoveries, and mutagenesis is a way to enhance one's chances of finding a surprise. Often it is the exceptional observations that lead to advances; once you understand exceptions, you understand the whole picture.
Humans. Sometimes they make chimps look smart.
caelum, non animum mutant, for instance - climate may change, but not character - and
Within this new mix of genes are unprecedented possibilities, old weaknesses eliminated, and new weaknesses that might even turn out to be strengths. This is the mechanism by which the wheels of evolution turn. All
If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for?
Evolution is a tinkerer.
There's no posterity to write for. I'm writing now for mutated arthropods.
They that have voice of lions and act of hares,
are they not monsters?
That which makes a man superhuman is terrifying.
The genes are master programmers, and they are programming for their lives.
Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet.
This sex thing. We never used to be hung up like this. Nature doesn't give little kids problems except when there's some kind of an accident
like that eight-year-old South American girl that had a baby. But that's practically a mutation, right?
We're like superheroes!
To get from "protoplasmal primordial atomic globule" (as Gilbert and Sullivan put it) to sentient upright modern human has required you to mutate new traits over and over in a precisely timely manner for an exceedingly long while.
Astonishing, really, that they still look human. They ought to look like megaphones, like screams, like brutal desires, like beery ecstasies ... like decadent barism. But the unconscious drive to remain in God's image seems to be so strong that not even the six-day races can quite eradicate it.
Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.
What alchemy there was in human beings.
Cruelty and compassion come with the chromosomes
Use your head, Sep. Loads of wolverines. Hanging around waiting for super. Gtting excited. eating mint blasts. so what do you think they do?'
it must be here. they can't have eaten that ... i dunno, Nik, what do they do?'
POO.
You cannot deny, my dear friend, that there are in existence creatures who are neither man nor beast, but strange unearthly creations, born of the nefarious passions that arise in distorted minds.
The Beautiful Gene.
Werewolves and Arabians. It's like chocolate and peanut butter - a delicious combination.
You seem to have powers that are hardly human,
Genes are natural resources.
I would say inhuman. But your kind perfected the clockwork of murder long ago.
Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.
Zombie Super Powers, activate, you fucking bitches.
Max?" said the Gasman. "Are those, um, rats?"
Lovely. "Yes, those do appear to be either rats or mice on steroids," I said briskly, trying not to shriek and climb the walls like a girly-girl.
Madness, in its wild, untamable words, proclaims its own meaning; in its chimeras, it utters its secret truth.
Gerard's spirit animal is a gazelle - that's how he's always answered - Frankie would definitely be a wolverine, I would be a shark because of my inability to sit still, and Ray? Ray would be ... I'm thinking super intelligent, super articulate, I would think owl.
Humans are the most gloriously bizarre creatures.
What kind of shapeshifter has orange fur anyway?" "Weredingo." Now I'd seen everything. Well, at least he didn't steal my baby.
The pathways that have led to our evolution are quirky, improbable, unrepeatable and utterly unpredictable.
Stupid werewolf ninja sperm.
The thought of superhuman beings with human temptations and flaws sends a chill through me.
Stupid, Stupid Rat Creatures!
Nature is only another chimera.
We are loping sequences of chemical conversions, acting ourselves converted. We are twists of genes acting ourselves twisted; we are wicks of burning neuroses acting ourselves wicked. And nothing to be done about it. And nothing to be done about it.
Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all.
When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.
For a bunch of hairless apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things.
Freaks become norms, and norms become extinct. Monster by monster, evolution advanced
The better to slay me?! Mt healing factors make me a mutant. Lacing my bones with adamantium and giving me these claws, that was done to me. but, you asked to be changed. You did this to yourself. Threw away a humanity i'd give pretty near anything to possess.
People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based ... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?
and mentally aberrant type.
Two million years ago, genetic mutations resulted in the appearance of a new human species called Homo erectus.
They ate my humanity but no humanity in beginning humans Earth dust atoms
Clever microorganisms defy gods
But defy nothing
Phantom of truth
Beneath reality's facade
Monkey People? They
I'm a fan of X-men.
Humans, when you talk me about them... I more likely see them as a unsolveable unlogicalable problem... than something else.
They [Erasers] were bad fliers," Angel chimed in, "And in their minds, they weren't all kill the mutants, like they usually are. They were like, remember to flap!
The very effect of X-rays killing rapidly dividing cells - DNA damage - also created cancer-causing mutations in genes.
There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
There's nothing so inhuman as a human being.
Nature is actually unnatural
I'm a coyote shapeshifter playing in a world of werewolves and vampires
outmatched is an understatement.
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 can change, and people working with plants have picked mutations. Mutations are nothing more than genetic changes.
Zombie Super Powers, Activate!
There are days I long to disappear in the wild, go back to the predator life I was meant to have. Kill the prey or be killed: it's in my genes.
A chimera, that's what I am. And this is my story.
Animals, I think. We're animals.
Artists are the antennae of the race.
somethingological
Evolutionary plasticity can be purchased only at the ruthlessly dear price of continuously sacrificing some individuals to death from unfavourable mutations. Bemoaning this imperfection of nature has, however, no place in a scientific treatment of this subject.
New mutations don't create new species; they create offspring that are impaired.
VAMPIRES I see things you can't see WEREWOLVES I find things that hunt you FAERIES I am your protector SHAPESHIFTERS But even I can't protect you now.
Earthlings must be the terrors of the Universe! If
I like the X-Men, otherwise I wouldn't be doing it.
Marvel does a great job of making their characters human.
So here is that line from the American Declaration of Independence translated into biological terms: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men evolved differently, that they are born with certain mutable characteristics, and that among these are life and the pursuit of pleasure.
I don't actually know what 'transgenic' means. I just know that I have to express doubt or repulsion whenever I say it. It impresses people.
Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.
If we didn't have genetic mutations, we wouldn't have us. You need error to open the door to the adjacent possible.
Eventually what was the superhuman becomes the common, the ordinary, the mundane.
Real life ... Witches: Wiccan practitioners. Werewolves: rare strain of rabies. Zombies: Prions/Plague. Vampires: Hemophilia/Porphyria
I can discover nothing in any mere animal but an ingenious machine, to which nature has given senses to wind itself up, and guard, to a certain degree, against everything that might destroy or disorder it.
Imagine! In each of us lies the potential to do superhuman things. Feats of great physical daring, art, science. The ability to defy laws of nature.
Anything's better than Gen X which is what we got. Thanks Douglas Coupland. We sound like a team of mutant vigalantees with frosted hair and chain wallets. Actually that's not completely horrible.