"Transmutable" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... each of several joints, tipped with claws—nowise essentially different, in short, from that with which the toad, or frog, first set out in a past too distant for our infirm imagination. Admiration itself is paralysed by a contrivance so simple, so transmutable, and so sufficient for every need that time ...
— Concerning Animals and Other Matters • E.H. Aitken, (AKA Edward Hamilton)
... is seen to be absurd as soon as it is examined closely. The theory of descent with modification is not properly convertible with either of these two views, for descent with modification deals with the question whether species are transmutable or no, and dispute as to the respective merits of the two natural selections deals with the question how it comes to be transmuted; nevertheless, the words "the theory of descent with slow modification through the ordinary course of things" (which is what "descent with modification through ...
— Luck or Cunning? • Samuel Butler |
