Reproduction Quotes

Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.

— Henry Moore

“evolution is about reproduction, passing on copies of genes.”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Reproduction is more pleasurable than death.

— Herman E. Daly

I'm telling you that at eight she knew more about reproduction than Xerox.

— Joan Rivers

Human reproduction can be a sticky subject—” “Ewww!” groaned a chorus of students

— Becca Fitzpatrick

“We should not seek immortality in reproduction.”

— Richard Dawkins

Sex to me is not luxury any more. It is necessity of reproduction.

— Enock Maregesi

In the last 100 years since the invention of sound reproduction, music has really taken off and it is much more a…

— Jerry Garcia

Photography itself is most frequently nothing but the reproduction of the image that a group produces of its own integration.

— Pierre Bourdieu

The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist

— Edgar Allan Poe

Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual.

— Walter Benjamin

A human heart can never grow old if it takes a lively interest in the pairing of birds, the reproduction of flowers,…

— Lydia M. Child

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of…

— Lewis Mumford

I think in matters of relationship, intimacy, reproduction, sexuality, I think that people should make their own choices, and we should allow…

— Tim Kaine

Individual capitalists, in short, behave in such a way as to threaten the conditions that permit the reproduction of the capitalist class.

— David Harvey

Of all the named structures within the abdomen and the chest, those associated with reproduction retained the mysteries of their willful behavior…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

Controlling women as the means of reproduction is made even more necessary by any race or caste or class system. It just…

— Gloria Steinem

A source of conflict for women everywhere is the pull between reproduction and production. Women worldwide have difficulty in balancing their dual…

— Madeleine M. Kunin

Painting, like music, has nothing to do with the reproduction of nature, nor interpretation of intellectual meanings. Whoever is able to feel…

— Hilla von Rebay

We live in an age of reproduction. Most of what makes up our personal picture of the world we have never seen…

— Max Frisch

Many mammals and birds have systems for strong self-control, and it is not difficult to see why such systems were advantageous and…

— Patricia Churchland

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

No practical biologist interested in sexual reproduction would be led to work out the detailed consequences experienced by organisms having three or…

— Ronald Fisher

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

— Wilhelm Wundt

Photography is the typical means of expression of a society founded on a civilization of technicians, conscious of the aims it has…

— Gisele Freund

All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race has long…

— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Sexual reproduction exists solely as a means to defeat parasites. By mixing male and female genes, sex produces offspring not exactly like…

— Daniel Suarez

High quality water is more than the dream of the conservationists, more than a political slogan; high quality water, in the right…

— Richard Bangs

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

— Michael Ruse

Every so often every artist feels, 'I'll never paint again. The muse has gone out the window.' In 1985, I hardly painted…

— Helen Frankenthaler

I suspect that religion is a necessary evil in the childhood of our particular species. And that's one of the interesting things…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“All social orders command their members to imbibe in pipe dreams of posterity, the mirage of immortality, to keep them ahead of…

— Thomas Ligotti

“One could imagine that a group of anthropologists and scientists sent off to study a previously uncontacted Amazon tribe today might be…

— Graham Hancock

“In nineteenth century Europe (and later in other parts of the world) the transition from a subsistence to a market economy based…

— Eleanor Burke Leacock

“if someone got to see the Beautiful itself, absolute, pure, unmixed, not polluted by human flesh or colors or any other great…

— Plato

“First Law In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any…

— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

“For in the ever-repeated origination of highly organized individuals from an infinitesimal germ, the working-out of a prearranged plan of growth and…

— Hans Jonas

“Youth was the time for happiness, its only season; young people, leading a lazy, carefree life, partially occupied by scarcely absorbing studies,…

— Michel Houellebecq

Well, I happen to have a love of vocal reproduction devices.

— Billy West