Quotes About Reproduction

big-bang reproduction, or semelparity: a single reproductive effort, followed by preprogrammed death.

What one exorcises in this [imagery] way at little cost, and for the price of a few tears, will never in effect be reproduced

Each segment of the worm is directly reproduced as a whole worm, just as each cell of the American CEO can produce a new CEO.

What is more natural in a democratic age than that we should begin to measure the stature of a work of art-especially of a painting-by how widely and how well it is reproduced?

I am strictly against remaking a movie.

It struck me what we should be trying to do was pluck the egg from the ovary and fertilise it in the laboratory. We could do this in animals increasingly... this was the way to go in the human species.

I think you can say that life is a system in which proteins and nucleic acids interact in ways that allow the structure to grow and reproduce. It's that growth and reproduction, the ability to make more of yourself, that's important.

What's the point of re-releasing an album? The original sounded good, why change something about it?

Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The past devours the future.

DNA is now a reality. Reproductive

Kuun noustessa punaiset hämähäkit pariutuvat asumattomilla luodoilla, koko kallio on yhtä ja samaa tiuhaa hämähäkkimattoa, jossa vilisee pieniä, hurmioituneita olioita.

The West is dying. Its nations have ceased to reproduce, and their populations have stopped growing and begun to shrink. Not since the Black Death carried off a third of Europe in the fourteenth century has there been a graver threat to the survival of Western civilization.

It is one thing, I was discovering, to think, Maybe I won't have kids, and quite another to be told, Maybe you can't. This is how impatience turns to desperation.

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

The fact that cartoons are reproduced doesn't mean anything to me as far as whether they are "real art" or not.

If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.

Art is a self-replicating force.

I'm for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction.

only thing your DNA thinks about is reproducing itself.

Things growing to themselves are growth's abuse: Seeds spring from seeds and beauty breedeth beauty;

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how music should be played.

I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.

Darwin's great gift to science was simplifying all life to pure mathematics: your one and only goal on earth is multiplication. Everything you do, every instinct you have, is an evolutionary urge to make babies and leave behind as many copies of yourself as possible. From that perspective, heroism makes no sense. Why risk the grave for someone else if there's no guarantee of a biological payoff? Dying for your own kids: smart. Dying for a rival's? Genetic suicide.

The world began without the human race and it will end without it…. Man has never—save only when he reproduces himself—done other than cheerfully dismantle million upon million of structures and reduce their elements to a state in which they can no longer be reintegrated.