Quotes About Embryo

Mother is in herself a concrete denial of the idea of sexual pleasure since her sexuality has been placed at the service of reproductive function alone. She is the perpetually violated passive principle; her autonomy has been sufficiently eroded by the presence within her of the embryo she brought to term. Her unthinking ability to reproduce, which is her pride, is, since it is beyond choice, not a specific virtue of her own.

He was thinking of death; death in the form of a new life growing and growing in his belly, like an embryo in a womb. The one thing fresh and active in his old body, the one thing exuberantly and increasingly alive was death.

Humanity was composed of separate individuals now, but an embryo at early stages was also nothing more than a ball of separate cells. But these separate cells would ultimately become connected in wondrous ways to create something unimaginably greater than themselves.

En mi diario aparece escrito el 19 de enero: «Pequeños dolores. No sé cuánto tiempo va a necesitar el embrión para morir y ser expulsado. Un clarín toca La Marsellesa, se oyen risas en la planta de arriba. Así es la vida».

I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.

In America, abortionist believe that a fetus and an embryo are not a life.

Did dreams, he wondered, when they arrived, make a sound? The smallest kind, like the noise of an embryo being conceived, or a snowflake touching down?

We're afloat in amniotic fluid.' 'How's that?' 'Salt water. It's chemically almost identical with the fluid surrounding an unborn baby.

It was the embryo, lost before that point at which Laplace can be distinguished from a turtle.

But let us assume, for the moment, that every three-day-old human embryo has a soul worthy of our moral concern. Embryos at this stage occasionally split, becoming separate people (identical twins). Is this a case of one soul splitting into two? Two embryos sometimes fuse into a single individual, called a chimera. You or someone you know may have developed in this way. No doubt theologians are struggling even now to determine what becomes of the extra human soul in such a case.

Human life commences at the time of conception.

The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.

I was wearing glitter in the womb.

The first classroom is in a mother's womb.

We have a lot to gain through furthering stem cell research, but medical breakthroughs should be fundamentally about saving, not destroying, human life. Therefore, I support stem cell research that does not destroy the embryo.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life.

If a newly pregnant mother spends the first weeks of her pregnancy eating a typical junk-food-laden diet, the embryo may receive signals that it's going to be born into a harsh environment where critical types of food are scarce. Through a combination of epigenetic effects, various genes are turned on and off and the baby is born small, so it needs less food to survive.

Bitch going to rue the day she decided to unleash Phrixis on the world. (Thorn) Rue the day? (Fang) I'm old enough to make you look like an embryo. Sometimes it shows. (Thorn)

I don't believe the fertilised egg can be equated with the sort of human life that you and I represent, or our children represent.

I am one to believe that life starts at the moment of conception.

As I said, I believe life starts at conception.

This fertilized ovum, known as a zygote, is a large diploid cell that is the beginning, or primordium, of a human being.