The general rule is that anything that is passed on in…

“The human egg is a Mrs. Bennet, desperate to marry off her daughters...It is a truth universally acknowledged that a sperm must be in…

— Daryl Gregory

“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder…

— Mortimer Adler

If this labourer were in possession of his own means of production, and was satisfied to live as a labourer, he need not work…

— Karl Marx

My music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades. That is, the sounds of human speech, as the…

— Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

A camera is wild in just about anybody's hands, therefore one must set limits. But cameras have a life of their own. Cameras care…

— Robert Smithson

We are still in various kinds of patriarchal systems. The very definition of patriarchy is that men control women as the means of reproduction,…

— Gloria Steinem

“Conception is not some genteel, quiet pastime; it’s a fierce and unforgiving team sport.”

— Barbara Natterson-Horowitz

As a boy, I used to look at reproductions of Rembrandt's portraits... the people in his paintings were so real I felt I knew…

— David Cobley

It was to Hofmeister, working as a young man, an amateur and enthusiast, in the early morning hours of summer months, before business, at…

— Arthur Harry Church

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

— John Steinbeck

The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No human inquiry…

— Leonardo da Vinci

A story is told that Whistler once painted a tiny picture of a spray of roses. The artistry involved in the picture was magnificent.…

— Sterling W Sill

If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature,…

— Paul Cezanne

Fear breeds upon itself because it is a hermaphrodite capable of endless reproduction. Fear is a contagious disease, spreading from its first victim to…

— Ernest K. Gann