Assured Quote by Havelock Ellis

“Thus we can regard the phenomenon of reproduction as founded in the very nature of being. But we must stop there. The perpetuation of…

— Simone de Beauvoir

In no sense other than an utterly trivial one is reproduction the inverse of chemical disintegration. It is a misunderstanding of genetics to suppose…

— Peter Medawar

“The phenomena of asexual propagation and of parthenogenesis appear to be neither more nor less fundamental than those of sexual reproduction. I have said…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us…

— Louis Schwartzberg

“Unlike the clonal longevity of asexual organisms, sexually reproduced plants and animals usually have briefer, individual life cycles. In short, the enormous diversity afforded…

— Richard J. Borden

If any value is deeply evolutionarily familiar, it is reproductive success. If any value is truly unnatural, if there is one thing that humans…

— Satoshi Kanazawa

Sex is the main way we exist on the planet. It's an essential part of life.

— Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

Sex is a part of nature.

— Jack

“A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. ... When any living organism is attacked, its whole function…

— John Steinbeck

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

— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

From an evolutionary point of view, sex is really just a reward mechanism to encourage us to pass on our genetic material.

— Bill Bryson

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

— Robert M. Sapolsky