Embryos Quotes:

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

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

topic: Brain, Ability, Embryos

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

- Keith L. Moore

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

topic: Embryos, Humans

Our real teacher has been and still is the embryo, who is, incidentally, the only teacher who is always right.

- Viktor Hamburger

source: Viktor Hamburger, Society for Developmental Biology (1968). “The emergence of order in developing systems”

topic: Teacher, Real, Embryos

Outlaw embryo farming, but allow using surplus embryos.

- Mitt Romney

topic: Farming, Outlaw, Embryos

I'm old enough to make you look like an embryo. [Thorn]

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

source: Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “The Dark-Hunters”, p.608, Macmillan

topic: Looks, Enough, Embryos

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

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

topic: Evil, Next, Embryos

Now, an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but, in fact, the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person.

- Todd Akin

topic: Unique, May, Information, Embryos

Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Inspirational, God, Desire, Embryos

Society does not need more children; but it does need more loved children. Quite literally, we cannot afford unloved children - but we pay heavily for them every day. There should not be the slightest communal concern when a woman elects to destroy the life of her thousandth-of-an-ounce embryo. But all society should rise up in alarm when it hears that a baby that is not wanted is about to be born.

- Garrett Hardin

topic: Baby, Children, Feminist, Unloved, Being Unloved

What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.

- Henri Frederic Amiel

topic: Littles, Causes, Little Things, Specks, Embryos

My plans are still in embryo, a town on the edge of wishful thinking.

- Groucho Marx

topic: Funny, Witty, Humorous, Wishful Thinking, Embryos

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

- Samuel Butler

source: Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4087, Delphi Classics

topic: Life, Men, History, Life Is Worth Living, Embryos

This was our last stop. This was it. We had those two embryos that we had banked prior to learning about the breast cancer, and with the medicine she was on, this was our last effort. The prayers were answered.

- Bill Rancic

topic: Prayer, Cancer, Two, Breast Cancer, Embryos

I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning.

- Mitt Romney

source: Press conference, May 2005.

topic: Creating, Cells, Cloning, Stem Cell Research, Embryonic Stem Cell Research

It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life.

- Lewis Wolpert

source: "From Egg to Embryo: Determinative Events in Early Development". Book by J.M.W. Slack, Ch. 1, 1999.

topic: Important, Birth, Embryos

The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them.

- Ken Calvert

topic: Purpose, Cloning, Research, Medical Research, Human Cloning

Each year thousands of embryos, no bigger than the head of a pin, are created in the process of in vitro fertilization, with the support of Congress, by the way.

- Lois Capps

topic: Years, Support, Way, Fertilization, Embryos

We are here simply to decide whether Congress should take the taxpayer dollars of millions of pro-life Americans and use them to fund the destruction of human embryos for research

- Mike Pence

topic: Pro Life, Dollars, Use, Embryos

We can continue to make significant strides in the scientific community by exploring new stem cell research methods that do not include destroying human embryos.

- John Boehner

topic: Cells, Community, Research, Embryos

What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for the lives of Iraqis as he does for the lives of Americans, or even frozen American embryos.

- Peter Singer

topic: Book, Doe, Frozen, Embryos

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

- Soren Kierkegaard

topic: Life, Passion, Soul, Intellectual Life, Pathos

Well, there are two kinds of stem cells: adult stem cells, which you can get from any part of a grown body, and embryonic stem cells. These are the inner- core of days-old embryos that can develop into any kind of cell.

- Mort Kondracke

topic: Cells, Two, Body, Embryonic Stem Cells, Embryos

Indeed, religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are highly immoral - that is, when pressing these concerns inflicts unnecessary and appalling suffering on innocent human beings. This explains why Christians like yourself expend more "moral" energy opposing abortion than fighting genocide. It explains why you are more concerned about human embryos than about the lifesaving promise of stem-cell research. And it explains why you can preach against condom use in sub-Saharan Africa while millions die from AIDS there each year. (25)

- Sam Harris

topic: Christian, Fighting, Cells, Stem Cell Research, Sub Saharan Africa

The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethically challenged science. But spend the people's money on proven blood cord, bone marrow, germ cell, and adult cell research.

- Roger Wicker

topic: Money, Cells, Blood, Marrow, Questionable

I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix.

- Charles Krauthammer

topic: Religious, Believe, Moral, Appendix, Personhood

Although life is a continuous process, fertilization is a critical landmark because, under ordinary circumstances, a new, genetically distinct human organism is thereby formed.... The combination of 23 chromosomes present in each pronucleus results in 46 chromosomes in the zygote. Thus the diploid number is restored and the embryonic genome is formed. The embryo now exists as a genetic unity.

- Ronan O'Rahilly

topic: Numbers, Unity, Ordinary, Landmarks, Chromosomes

The term pre-embryo is useful in the political arena - where decisions are made about whether to allow early embryo (now called pre-embryo) experimentation - as well as in the confines of a doctor's office, where it can be used to allay moral concerns that might be expressed by IVF patients. 'Don't worry,' a doctor might say, 'it's only pre-embryos that we're manipulating or freezing. They won't turn into real human embryos until after we've put them back into your body.'

- Lee M. Silver

topic: Real, Doctors, Worry, Ivf, Real Human

I thought, we can’t keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.

- Shinya Yamanaka

source: "Risk Taking Is in His Genes" by Martin Fackler, www.nytimes.com. December 11, 2007.

topic: Research, Way, Destroying, Embryos

When I saw the embryo, I suddenly realized there was such a small difference between it and my daughters. I thought, we can't keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.

- Shinya Yamanaka

source: "Risk Taking Is in His Genes". Interview with Martin Fackler, www.nytimes.com. December 11, 2007.

topic: Mother, Daughter, Differences, Embryos, Small Differences

Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.

- Karl Marx

source: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1976). “Collected works”

topic: Museums, Civilization, Dancer, Civil Servants, Steeples

I strongly oppose cloning, as do most Americans. We recoil at the idea of growing human beings for spare body parts or creating life for our convenience. And while we must devote enormous energy to conquering disease, it is equally important that we pay attention to the moral concerns raised by the new frontier of human embryo stem cell research. Even the most noble ends do not justify any means.

- George W. Bush

source: Remarks on Stem Cell Research, delivered 9 August 2001

topic: Life, Mean, Science, Stem Cell Research, Creating Life

It is not possible to think of a way of screening out effectively the most appropriate embryos, and hence, what we should expect would be late abortions -- either occurring spontaneously or being induced deliberately in the second or third trimester of pregnancy -- in order to prevent the birth of abnormal children.

- Ian Wilmut

source: "Scientists blast human cloning plans". www.cnn.com. August 8, 2001.

topic: Children, Pregnancy, Thinking, Embryos

I am opposed to both cloning and the destruction of human embryos and adamantly opposed to funding of embryonic stem cell research.

- Sandy Adams

topic: Cells, Cloning, Research, Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Embryonic Stem Cells

In recent weeks we learned that scientists have created human embryos in test tubes solely to experiment on them. This is deeply troubling, and a warning sign that should prompt all of us to think through these issues very carefully.

- George W. Bush

source: Remarks on Stem Cell Research, delivered 9 August 2001

topic: Science, Thinking, Issues, Warning Signs, Embryos

The student of Nature wonders the more and is astonished the less, the more conversant he becomes with her operations; but of all the perennial miracles she offers to his inspection, perhaps the most worthy of admiration is the development of a plant or of an animal from its embryo.

- Thomas Huxley

topic: Animal, Miracle, Development, Inspection, Embryos

Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Embryos

We shall therefore take an appropriately correct view of the origin of our life, if we consider our own embryos to have sprung immediately from those embryos whence our parents were developed, and these from the embryos of their parents, and so on for ever. We should in this way look on the nature of mankind, and perhaps on that of the whole animated creation, as one Continuous System, ever pushing out new branches in all directions, that variously interlace, and that bud into separate lives at every point of interlacement.

- Francis Galton

topic: Sprung, Nature Of Man, Separate Lives, Embryos

Birth into this life was the death of the embryo life that preceded; and the death of this will be birth into some new mode of being.

- Frederic Henry Hedge

source: Frederic Henry Hedge (1866). “Reason in Religion”, p.155

topic: Death, Birth, This Life, Embryos

In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will perish, like an embryo cutting its own umbilical cord.

- Thor Heyerdahl

topic: Cutting, Fighting, Winning, Umbilical Cord, Cords

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

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

topic: Cells, Abortion, Research, Stem Cell, Embryos

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

topic: Men, Hunting, Community, Stages Of Development, Embryos

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

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

topic: Facts, Ornaments, Grit, Embryos

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

- Carl von Clausewitz

topic: Peace, War, Womb, Antiwar, Preparing For War

We traveled for science: those three small embryos from Cape Crozier, that weight of fossils from Barkley Island, and that mass of material less spectacular but gathered just as carefully hour by hour, in wind and drift, darkness and cold, was striven for in order that the world may have a little more knowledge, that it may build on what it knows instead of on what it thinks.

- Apsley Cherry-Garrard

topic: Thinking, Order, Wind, More Knowledge, Embryos

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

topic: Memorable, Two, Discovery, Discs, Rotating

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

topic: Mother, Pride, Ideas, Embryos

[On daughter Liza Minnelli] I think she decided to go into show business when she was an embryo, she kicked so much.

- Judy Garland

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Embryos

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

topic: Views, Law, Opposites, Recapitulation, Reciprocal

This is the key to understanding the virgin birth. God's Word is full of faith and spirit power. God spoke it. God transmitted that image to Mary. She received the image inside of her. .. the embryo that was in Mary's womb was nothing more than the Word of God. .. She conceived the Word of God.

- Charles Capps

topic: Keys, Understanding, Spirit, Virgin Birth, Embryos

In every defeat, there develops a silent embryo of victory; in every failure, under the rubbles, there appears a divine key to success.

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Success, Keys, Victory, Rubble, Embryos

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

topic: Cells, Support, Doe, Medical Breakthroughs, Stem Cell Research

It is no accident that propels people like us to Paris.

- Henry Miller

source: Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

topic: Paris, People, France Paris, No Drama, Embryos

This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule; Life's theatre as yet is shut, and death, Strong death, alone can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us embryos of existence free.

- Edward Young

source: Edward Young (1823). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality: To which is Added a Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job, and the Last Day, a Poem”, p.4

topic: Strong, Twilight, Theatre, Embryos