Parenting Quote by Jonathan Swift

“When Charles Darwin indicated that Homo sapiens was just another kind of animal, people were outraged.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Was this what the human reproductive urge was like, a pointless and powerful desire to replicate wonderful, irreplaceable me, even when the me in…

— Jeff Lindsay

“It is unsettling – and perhaps thrilling – to think that we Sapiens could at one time have sex with an animal from a…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“On a slightly unconnected note, I am sorry to report that babies, as a collective species, are largely oblivious to my charms.”

— Amruta Patil

“I nestle into him with the sensation that we’re two creatures of the same species, the last two on the planet, and we’ve finally…

— Carolyn Crane

“In short, we evolved, like other animals, to win the reproduction game. That contest has a single aim, to leave as many descendants as…

— Jared Diamond

“This world has seen the birth of several strange animals.”

— Jindrich Styrsky

“It is at any rate a pleasure to meet such ontologically improbable creatures.”

— John Green

“It hit me right there and then that these antifragile hormetic responses were just a form of redundancy, and all the ideas of Mother…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Creatures stalking each other over time grew a bond from mind to mind.”

— Suzy McKee Charnas

“The rest is just sex, copulation, the perpetuation of the vile species.”

— Umberto Eco

“This couple, so involved with babies, had never reproduced themselves, though they could have. This was an interesting comment on the whole idea of…

— Kurt Vonnegut