Psychology Quote by Samuel Butler

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 think, therefore a single fertilized egg cell can replicate itself into trillions of specialized and exquisitely organized cells.”

— Self

“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

“What a phantasmagoria the mind is and meeting-place of dissemblables! At one moment we deplore our birth and state and aspire to an ascetic…

— Virginia Woolf

“The best place to start the evolution of the vertebrates is the imagination.”

— Homer W. Smith

“A three-day-old human embryo is a collection of 150 cells called a blastocyst. There are, for the sake of comparison, more than 100,000 cells…

— Sam Harris

Birth into this life was the death of the embryo life that preceded; and the death of this will be birth into some new…

— Frederic Henry Hedge

Now an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but in fact the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person.…

— Todd Akin

“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

“Does a metamorphosis begin from the outside in? Or from the inside out?”

— Pam Muñoz Ryan

Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of…

— Orson Scott Card

“When does a novel begin? The question is almost as difficult to answer as the question, when does the human embryo become a person? ”

— David Lodge