Quotes About Conception

People say life begins at conception, I say life began about a billion years ago and it's a continuous process.

I am pro-life, I believe human life begins at conception. I also believe that embryonic stem cell research should be encouraged and supported.

[Peake's books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

The Sermon on the Mount seems dangerous. It challenges the whole underlying conception on which modern society is built. It would replace it by a new conception, animate it with a new motive, and turn it toward a new goal.

Everything begins with an idea.

I, artist in words, dedicate, then, to you, artist whose ideas speak in marble, this well-loved work of my matured manhood. I love it not the less because it has been little understood and superficially judged by the common herd: it was not meant for them. I love it not the more because it has found enthusiastic favorers amongst the Few. My affection for my work is rooted in the solemn and pure delight which it gave me to conceive and to perform.

I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

A metafísica e a ciência não são pois rivais, mas colaboradoras na obra do conhecimento, e a concepção metafísica e a científica não devem ser representadas como duas esferas opostas, mas como dois círculos concêntricos.

People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.

Our lives are programmed at conception and are endowed with purpose and meaning.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

However this child was conceived, God will be the Father. My baby won't enter the world unloved or unwanted. If I can't feel a full measure of joy, I know the Lord will.

La verdad es que Jay Gatsby, de West Egg, Long Island, nació de su platónica concepción de sí mismo.

Stuff that into your womb and give birth to it elsewhere!

Because we cannot imagine a thing, that doesn't exclude it from reality.

In her opinion her singing falls on deaf ears anyway; there is no lack of enthusiasm and applause, but she has long since given up hope of genuine understanding as she conceives it.

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgment by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.

We tell infertile couples all the time that are having trouble conceiving because of the woman not ovulating, 'Just relax. Drink a glass of wine. And don't be so tense and uptight because all that adrenaline can cause you not to ovulate.'

For anyone who has found it easy to conceive, it is perhaps hard to imagine how IVF can become all-encompassing in someone's life. The endless check-ups, scans, tests, periods of waiting and finally the day when you learn the result. It's a physically punishing process for the women and an emotionally exhausting process for both partners.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

Remembering is a great invention of the mind.

As long as we see ourselves as rational beings who can think logically and make carefully reasoned decisions about our daily lives, then education indeed should be about the promotion of reasoned deliberation and the gaining of knowledge that will enhance our ability to reason. But suppose this conception we have of ourselves and our ability to reason logically is simply wrong?