Reproduction Quotes

• Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

  Louis Schwartzberg

  Moving, Links, Evolution

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• One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.

  Mortimer Adler

  Unions, Creation, Aim

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• Reproduction is more pleasurable than death.

  Herman E. Daly

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• The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.

  Kate Millett

  Women, Exercise, Animal

  Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.119, Columbia University Press

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• The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

  Martin Luther

  Sex, Science, Should Have

  Table Talk 'Of Marriage and Celibacy'

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• In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.

  Leon Kass

  Children, Two, Cloning

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• I believe that now and always the conscious selection of the best for reproduction will be impossible; that to propose it is to display a fundamental misunderstanding of what individuality implies. The way of nature has always been to slay the hindmost, and there is still no other way, unless we can prevent those who would become the hindmost being born. It is in the sterilization of failure, and not in the selection of successes for breeding, that the possibility of an improvement of the human stock lies.

  H. G. Wells

  Lying, Believe, Eugenics

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• The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Real, Hype, Giving

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• The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Nature, Flower, Garden

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

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• The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

  Lewis Mumford

  Art, Creativity, Cities

  "The City in History". Book by Lewis Mumford. Chapter 18, 1961.

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• The reproduction of
  what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Soul, Veils, Perceive

  Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.51, City Lights Books

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

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Music, People, Mechanic

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• No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and reason is just one of its various techniques.

  E. O. Wilson

  Survival, Mind, Technique

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• Since we're not very good at something as basic as controlling our reproduction, life is really bad for more people than ever before.

  Dale Jamieson

  People, Life Is, Very Good

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Artist, Men, Names

  Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.51, City Lights Books

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• Another werewolf thing. Like most animals, we spent a large part of our lives engaged in the three Fs of basic survival. Feeding, fighting and... reproduction.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Fighting, Animal, Survival

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Stolen”, p.19, Vintage Canada

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• Photography is a transformation, not a reproduction.

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Transformation

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• Homosexuality is not 'normal' On the contrary it is a challenge to the norm...Nature exists whether academics like it or not. And in nature, procreation is the single relentless rule. That is the norm. Our sexual bodies were designed for reproduction...No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous...homosexuality is an adaptation, not an inborn trait.

  Camille Paglia

  Gay, Ideas, Challenges

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• The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No human inquiry can be a science unless it pursues its path through mathematical exposition and demonstration.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Lying, Math, Path

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• What had been released into the desert vacuum and starry oases of the galaxy was the inexorable logic of reproduction and natural selection. What followed was parasitism, predation, symbiosis, interdependency chaos, complexity, life.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Oasis, Vacuums, Desert

  Robert Charles Wilson (2011). “Vortex”, p.304, Macmillan

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• Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.

  Walter Benjamin

  Art, Unique, Space

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.230, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The important point is that since the origin of life belongs in the category of at-least-once phenomena, time is on its side. However improbable we regard this event, or any of the steps which it involves, given enough time it will almost certainly happen at least once. And for life as we know it, with its capacity for growth and reproduction, once may be enough.

  George Wald

  Origin Of Life, Growth, Important

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• The androcentric, patriarchal cultures, whatever you want to call it, are quite new. So, every economic statement should start with reproduction, not production. Every statement for human rights ought to include reproduction as a basic human right, like freedom of speech.

  Gloria Steinem

  Rights, Freedom Of Speech, Culture

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Hermeticism is the science of nature hidden in the hieroglyphics and symbols of the ancient world. It is the search for the principle of life, along with the dream (for those who have not yet achieved it) of accomplishing the great work, that is the reproduction by man of the divine, natural fire which creates and recreates beings.

  Eliphas Levi

  Dream, Men, Fire

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• Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Reality, Expression

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