Reproduction Quotes

“Understanding the principles of reproduction is to multiply”

“I find no reason to think that aging is genetically determined. Genes do not provide information for the development of the individual beyond growth and the reproductive process in which the genes are transmitted to the next generation. Once past the reproductive stage, the individual has served the purposes of preservation of the species, and then he is on his own. The wrinkled human face is the victim of gravity and of cumulative errors in the reproduction of cells. Since aging is not programed, but is a badly improvised interference with youthful beauty, we have improvised an operation to counteract its effects. Aging is a form of misinformation. If we get the facts right, you will be able to read it in our faces. ("Motherhood")”

“Most of the psychological differences between men and women seem to come from differences in their reproductive system”

“This lesser world is all about reproduction, as you might well know. Those who cease to duplicate simply die.”

“The word 'love,' used in connection with the reproduction of our species, is the most odious blasphemy taught in our times.”

“Marriage is the commodification of affection, copulation, and, reproduction.”

“A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. ... When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim toward reproduction.”

“It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of those differences in reproduction.”

“Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.”