Balloon Quote by John Tyler Bonner

When I was little, the great mystery to me was not how babies were made, but why?

— Jodi Picoult

This work should commence with the conception of man, and should describe the nature of the womb, and how the child inhabits it, and…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Increasingly committed to human studies, I sought to collect several immature human oocytes from pieces of excised ovarian tissue, mature and fertilize them in…

— Robert Edwards

“Humans emerge from the womb like molten glass from a furnace. They can be spun, stretched and shaped with a surprising degree of freedom.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

After fertilization has taken place a new human being has come into being.

— Jerome Lejeune

“Most mammals emerge from the womb like glazed earthenware emerging from a kiln –any attempt at remoulding will only scratch or break them. Humans…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The fetus was minute - a congregation of loitering cells - and as with anything that informal, there was a good chance that it…

— David Sedaris

“Most mammals emerge from the womb like glazed earthenware emerging from a kiln – any attempt at remoulding will only scratch or break them.…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Man is developed from an ovule, about 125th of an inch in diameter, which differs in no respect from the ovules of other animals.

— Charles Darwin

Human life commences at the time of conception.

— Landrum Shettles

In the beginning, in the time that was no time, nothing existed but the Womb. And the Womb was a limitless dark cauldron of…

— Barbara G. Walker

“Nobody can remember when the sperm became large enough to see, but we agree on this: once that point was reached, every generation topped…

— Shelley Jackson