"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

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“I can get a better role in TV and work more constantly than I can waiting around for my friends in Canada to call me every four years - which they do - and I go up there and play a leading role.”
“The American heroes are wearing camo. That's not me.”

Source : "T.J. Oshie: Five Things to Know About the U.S. Hockey Star" by Andrea Billups, people.com. February 15, 2014.
“Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always knocking you back into the present moment, which I find very pleasurable.”

Source : Interview with David Salle, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 4, 2015.
“I did this movie with Spike Lee called 'Sucker Free City,' and that would have to be my favorite role by far. It was just so much fun to work with Spike and shoot in San Francisco.”
“Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole.”

Source : Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.12
“All my life I've felt weak compared to other people. If they want to crush me then they can. But I know I can do things that other people can't.”
“But - but the greatest way to witness is by walking that straight and narrow and also realizing that you're going to mess up. That's what grace is for. We're going to fall, but we've got to get back up. And you've got to improve. And that's what I'm all about.”
“I don't really shout that much.”

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