Quotes About Conception

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Whatever we conceive well we express clearly.

Unimaginable perhaps; but the unimaginable is there to be imagined.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

The science is settled; it's not even a consensus, it is a unanimity that human life begins at conception.

Unborn babies - that is, fetuses, embryos, and even 'zygotes' - are innocent human beings.

I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it.

The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.

No one relishes the prospect of humans being conceived artificially. But can you offer an alternative?

Most ideas remain inside you for a while. You tell somebody when there is a spark or a thought, and leave it at that. You come back later, write down a few lines. I makes note in my mind on whether it can be made into a film or not.

It's hard to explain where ideas come from. They're an amalgamation of a million thoughts, dreams and sparks of imagination and it's difficult to pinpoint the exact moment of conception.

Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.

Some pundits have proposed that the aliens have come here to breed with us. Apparently, too much bike riding or something similar has rendered them incapable of reproducing within their own species. But do extraterrestrial infants toddle through your neighborhood?

Man comes not from an egg but from an animalcule that is found in male sperm.

My dream is to have a baby, not to adopt one, because I am not up to it and I don't feel strong enough. I want my own child, a biological child, the fruit of my sperm, conceived through artificial insemination because it wouldn't make sense for me to make love to a woman I don't love.

Democracy demands that judges confine themselves to a narrow sphere of influence - that is why the late Alexander Bickel called the judiciary the 'Least Dangerous Branch.' In a world governed by a proper conception of their role, judges don't play at being legislators - they leave that job to our elected representatives.

Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.

Now all oscillatory movements of such an electron can be conceived of as being split up into force, and two circular oscillations perpendicular to this direction rotating in opposite directions.

THE PREMISE OF THIS BOOK CAME TO ME CIRCA 2006

They could not see what they could not imagine

Life is a creation, not a discovery

The process of creation starts with thought—an idea, conception, visualization. Everything you see was once someone's idea. Nothing exists in your world that did not first exist as pure thought.