Growth Quote by George Eliot

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

— George Eliot

“Embryo minds, like embryo bodies, pass through a number of strange metamorphoses before they adopt their final shape.”

— Samuel Butler

“To the broody hen the notion would probably seem monstrous that there should be a creature in the world to whom a nestful of…

— William James

Embryology reveals surprising similarities between early embryos of seemingly quite different animals. And it also shows that some structures that may look very different…

— Alice Roberts

I don't believe the fertilised egg can be equated with the sort of human life that you and I represent, or our children represent.

— Robert Winston

“Embryos are like photograph film," said Mr. Foster waggishly, as he pushed open the second door. "They can only stand red light." And in…

— Aldous Huxley

When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg.

— Pablo Picasso

“What is proposed is nothing but the replacement of the old unintelligent, inevitable, almost unconscious fertility by an intelligently controlled, conscious fertility, and the…

— George Bernard Shaw

Translator Dlique was saying, very earnestly, “Eggs are so inadequate, don't you think? I mean, they ought to be able to become anything, but…

— Ann Leckie

“No one relishes the prospect of humans being conceived artificially. But can you offer an alternative?”

— Ted Chiang

“I’m one of twenty-three orphan prodigies. We were created using genetic engineering technologies that have been suppressed from the mainstream. I’m at least half…

— James Morcan

When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.

— Pablo Picasso