Embryos Quotes - Page 3

• Stem-cell research on embryos is an even worse excuse for the slaughter of life than abortion. No woman is even being spared an inconvenience this time.... It's just harvest and slaughter, harvest and slaughter, harvest and slaughter.

  Ann Coulter

  Cells, Abortion, Research

  Ann Coulter (2006). “Godless: The Church of Liberalism”, p.195, Crown Forum

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• 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.

  Michael Steele

  Cells, Support, Doe

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• It is characteristic of fundamental discoveries, of great achievements of the intellect, that they retain an undiminished power upon the imagination of the thinker. The memorable experiment of Faraday with a disc rotating between two poles of a magnet, which has borne such magnificent fruit, has long passed into every-day experience; yet there are certain features about this embryo of the present dynamos and motors which even today appear to us striking, and are worthy of the most careful study.

  Nikola Tesla

  Memorable, Two, Discovery

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• 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.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Facts, Ornaments, Grit

  Evelyn Waugh (1964). “Scoop: a novel”

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• Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Hunting, Community

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden and Civil Disobedience”, p.154, Xist Publishing

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• I established the opposite view, that this history of the embryo (ontogeny) must be completed by a second, equally valuable, and closely connected branch of thought - the history of race (phylogeny). Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation... 'ontogenesis is a brief and rapid recapitulation of phylogenesis, determined by the physiological functions of heredity (generation) and adaptation (maintenance).

  Ernst Haeckel

  Views, Law, Opposites

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• Your brain never stops developing and changing. It's been doing it from the time your were an embryo, and will keep on doing it all your life. And this ability, perhaps, represents it greatest strength.

  James Trefil

  Brain, Ability, Developing

  James Trefil (1998). “Are We Unique: A Scientist Explores the Unparalleled Intelligence of the Human Mind”, Wiley

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• I cannot project the degree of hatred required to make those women run around in crusades against abortion. Hatred is what they certainly project, not love for the embryos, which is a piece of nonsense no one could experience, but hatred, a virulent hatred for an unnamed object...Their hatred is directed against human beings as such, against the mind, against reason, against ambition, against success, against love, against any value that brings happiness to human life. In compliance with the dishonesty that dominates today's intellectual field, they call themselves "pro-life".

  Ayn Rand

  Running, Ambition, Pro Life

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.27, Penguin

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• Writers like Aldous Huxley and George Orwell have imagined the sort of scientific utopia which is coming to pass, but already their nightmare fancies are hopelessly out of date. A vast, air-conditioned, neon-lighted, glass-and-chromium broiler-house begins to take shape, in which geneticists select the best stocks to fertilise, and watch over the developing embryo to ensure that all possibilities of error and distortion are eliminated.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Errors, Glasses, Air

  Malcolm Muggeridge (2005). “Seeing Through the Eye: Malcolm Muggeridge on Faith”, p.109, Ignatius Press

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• 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.

  Angela Carter

  Mother, Pride, Ideas

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• Outlaw embryo farming, but allow using surplus embryos.

  Mitt Romney

  Farming, Outlaw, Surplus

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• It's important to us to see the development and growth. At the end of the day, it's our baby. Genetically it's ours. It's our embryo. We feel very connected.

  Bill Rancic

  Baby, Growth, The End Of The Day

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• I hate to say I'm a Cinderfella, but I've been watching the Globes since I was an embryo. I got a Facebook message from an elementary school friend who said, 'I remember you standing up and talking about attending the Golden Globes when we were little.

  Chris Colfer

  Hate, School, Remember You

  "'Glee's' Chris Colfer Decries Bullying in Golden Globes Speech" by Stacey Wilson Hunt , Lindsay Powers, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 16, 2011.

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• We must find out for ourselves that inside us is a god or goddess in embryo that wants to be born so that we can express our divinity.

  Deepak Chopra

  God, Divinity, Want

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.67, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature.

  James Russell Lowell

  Evil, Next, Higher

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.548, Delphi Classics

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• I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the apes, will endure --will endure longer than his home planet, will spread out to the other planets, to the stars, and beyond, carrying with him his honesty, his insatiable curiosity, his unlimited courage --and his noble essential decency. This I believe with all my heart.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Stars, Honesty, Believe

  "This I Believe", 1952.

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• That’s the problem with you nearly immortal types,” I said. “You couldn’t spot a pop culture reference if it skittered up and implanted an embryo down your esophagus.

  Jim Butcher

  Culture, Problem, Type

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.324, Penguin

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• How could you let him do this? (Shahara) I know you’re not going to pin this on me, Shay. I didn’t raise the embryo. You did. It’s what you get for teaching him things like honor, love, courage, and loyalty. If you’d left him a scared little snot-nose, he’d still be living in your basement. (Vik)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Loyalty, Teaching, Honor

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• A new moon teaches gradualness
  and deliberation and how one gives birth
  to oneself slowly. Patience with small details
  makes perfect a large work, like the universe.
  What nine months of attention does for an embryo
  forty early mornings will do for your gradually growing wholeness

  Rumi

  Morning, Moon, Giving

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• The soul is an embryo in the body of Man, and the day of death is the Day of awakening, for it is the Great era of labour and the rich Hour of creation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Men, Soul, Body

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• There is no way now to get around some use of embryos. But my goal is to avoid using them.

  Shinya Yamanaka

  Goal, Use, Way

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• Physical existence is so cramped.We grow old and bent over like embryos.Nine months passes;it is time to be born. The lamb wants to graze green daylight. There are ways of being born twice,of coming to where you fly,not individually like birds, but as the sun moves with his bride,sincerity.

  Rumi

  Freedom, Moving, Bird

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• A zygote is the beginning of a new human being (i.e., an embryo).

  Keith L. Moore

  Humans, Human Beings

  Keith L. Moore, T. V. N. Persaud (2003). “The developing human: clinically oriented embryology”, W B Saunders Co

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• Embryos turn into babies; buds turn into blossoms; acorns turn into oak trees. The same programming that exists in them exists in each of us - to manifest our highest potential. What is the difference between those things and us? That we can say no...So today, say yes.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Baby, Differences

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 12, 2013

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• To all conservative women out there: If you are so sure the embryo needed for stem cell research are precious human life that can't be destroyed, then implant one in your uterus and bring it to term. That's right, put your cervix where your mouth is.

  Bill Maher

  Cells, Uterus, Research

  Bill Maher (2006). “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer”, p.9, Rodale

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