Huts they made then, and fire, and skins for clothing, And a woman yielded to one man in wedlock... ... Common, to… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
When white men were willing to put their own offspring in the kitchen and corn field and allowed them to be sold… — Rebecca Latimer Felton Copy Share Image
Computers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiqués assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a book that imagined where advances in the study of genetics might lead us. Holman was the first… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
It's not the fledgling birds that are thrown out of the nest by their parents and made to fly; it's the parents… — Rosamund Lupton Copy Share Image
Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-classparents have not… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
Quantitative work shows clearly that natural selection is a reality, and that, among other things, it selects Mendelian genes, which are known… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
If we could honestly promise young couples that we knew how to give them offspring with superior character, why should we assume… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
This subject brings me to that vilest offspring of the herd mind -- the odious militia. The man who enjoys marching in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The basic formulation, or bare-bones mechanics, of natural selection is a disarmingly simple argument, based on three undeniable facts (overproduction of offspring,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Modern man receives a large part of his knowledge and general education by way of pictorial impressions, illustrations, photographs, films. Daily newspapers… — Otto Neurath Copy Share Image
Animals engage in a struggle for existence; for resources, to avoid being eaten and to breed. Environmental factors influence organisms to develop… — Al-Jahiz Copy Share Image
Women are more proactive. By their nature, they're genetically designed to nurture their offspring. Men have always been the hunters in their… — Horst Rechelbacher Copy Share Image
...I cannot help being astonished at the furious and ungoverned execration which all reference to the possibility of a fusion of the… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
“If I release you, you won't scream? I'd rather not continue the conversation like this." She shook her head, and he freed… — Jaime Rush Copy Share Image
Cyborgs are not reverent; they do not re-member the cosmos. They are wary of holism, but needy for connection- they seem to… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
[M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to… — Moderata Fonte Copy Share Image
In however complex a manner this feeling may have originated, as it is one of high importance to all those animals which… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The offspring of the woman, Jesus Christ, came into the world to save women who have dethroned God, taken His place, defined… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“He has also made the offspring dependent on the parents and given the parents an impulse to support it-thus producing the Family,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“It still remains unrecognised, that to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Societies that exclude the exoskeleton of religion should reflect carefully to what will happen to them over several generations. We don’t really… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Our whole life can go on in observation of the laws of nature, if we gain dominion over our desires from the… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
I feel most assuredly that our Father in heaven is far more interested in a soul-one of his children-than it is possible… — Joseph Fielding Smith Copy Share Image
Humility: The realization of our dependence on God. I have always had strong feelings about that word regardless of what anyone's background… — Hyrum W. Smith Copy Share Image
To any intelligent being, there is no emotion more important than hope. Individually or collectively, we must hope that the future will… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
You are a child of God. He is father of your spirit. Spiritually you are of noble birth, the offspring of the… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
But the origin of the American Republic is distinguished by peculiar circumstances. Other nations have been driven together by fear and necessity-the… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
The smile that illumines the features of beauty, When kindled by virtue, alluring appears; But smiles, tho' alluring, no magic can borrow,… — Henry George Bohn Copy Share Image
Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures. — Achy Obejas Copy Share Image
If from thy secret bed Of luxury unbidden offspring rise, Let them be kindly welcom'd to the day. — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
The majority of great men are the offspring of unhappy marriages. — Hermann Graf Keyserling Copy Share Image