Progeny Quotes

34 quotes by 27 authors

I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen… — Walter Savage Landor
[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's… — Adam Sedgwick
If A denotes one of the two constant traits, for example, the dominating one, a the recessive, and the Aa the hybrid form in which… — Gregor Mendel
When two plants, constantly different in one or several traits, are crossed, the traits they have in common are transmitted unchanged to the hybrids and… — Gregor Mendel
Tremendous purity, tremendous renunciation, is the one secret of spirituality. â€œNeither through wealth, nor through progeny, but through renunciation alone is immortality to be reached,â€… — Swami Vivekananda
We cannot and must not allow ourselves to have the message of Hiroshima and Nagasaki fade completely from our minds, and we cannot allow our… — Tadatoshi Akiba
A progeny of learning. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Whoever would like to cherish such adders and puny devils - who are the worst enemies of Christ and us all - to befriend them… — Martin Luther
Today, all our wives and husbands have Blackberries or iPhones or Android devices or whatever-the progeny of those original 950 and 957 models that put… — Ian Bogost
So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our own fearful fantasies. — Rick Yancey
Eventually we must leave Earth-at least a certain number of our progeny must as our sun approaches the end of its solar life cycle. But… — Edgar Mitchell
It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the… — Lewis Thomas
Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to preserve the species:… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate… — Nikola Tesla
Our bread and water are of one table: the progeny of Adam are as a single soul. — Muhammad Iqbal
May liberal men abound with us! May our knowledge of the Vedas and our progeny increase! May faith not forsake us! May we have much… — Guru Nanak
Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive. — James Lovelock
And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and… — Lewis Thomas

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