Reproduction Quotes · Page 7

To start with invention is the mark of the fertile mind ... and leads later to the interpretation of experience; to start…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

[The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model…

— Andre Bazin

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive…

— Edgar Allan Poe

So far as photography satisfied a wish, it satisfied a wish not confined to painters, but a human wish, intensifying since the…

— Stanley Cavell

The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that…

— Douglas J. Futuyma

Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its…

— Walter Benjamin

The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Holland's and Kauffman's work, together with Dawkins' simulations of evolution and Varela's models of autopoietic systems, provide essential inspiration for the new…

— John Henry Holland

Every time new technology is introduced, especially involving reproduction, you get the 'yuck' effect.

— Brigitte Boisselier

The United Nation's goal is to reduce population selectively by encouraging abortion, forced sterilization, and control of human reproduction, and regards two-thirds…

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

Even in ordinary reproduction [photography] verges on facsimile.

— Stephen Shore

The acceptability of birth control has always depended on a morality that separates sex from reproduction. In the nineteenth century, when the…

— Linda Gordon

In photography we possess an extraordinary instrument for reproduction. But photography is much more than that. Today it is [a method for…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

“Will you excuse us all,” [Jeff] said, “if we admit that we find it hard to believe? There is no such-possibility-in the…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Negatives are the notebooks, the jottings, the false starts, the whims, the poor drafts, and the good draft but never the completed…

— W. Eugene Smith

Thus ordered thinking arises out of the ordered course of nature in which man finds himself, and this thinking is from the…

— Wilhelm Wundt

Violence against women is clearly not solved, not at all solved, and the reasons for it, which are controlling women's bodies in…

— Gloria Steinem

Morality is a biological adaptation no less than are hands and feet and teeth... Considered as a rationally justifiable set of claims…

— Michael Ruse

“To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If production be capitalistic in form, so, too, will be reproduction.

— Karl Marx

The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of…

— David Tudor

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

— Mortimer Adler

If I seem detached or distant, it's because I think this is a more exact reproduction of life, where you hide as…

— Isabelle Huppert

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years…

— Gail Carson Levine

Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women.

— Gloria Steinem