Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Man comes not from an egg but from an animalcule that is found in male sperm.

Life is the division of human cells, a process which begins at conception.

When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life.

For my part, I would say that the male sperm and seeds of plants have been penetrated so far that there is nothing further to discover in this great secret, but I could err in my opinion.

The minute those two little particles inside a woman's womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy.

One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.

The egg of every species of animal or plant carries a definite number of bodies called chromosomes. The sperm carries the same number. Consequently, when the sperm unites with the egg, the fertilized egg will contain the double number of chromosomes.

Darwin theorized that mankind (both male and female) evolved alongside each other over millions of years, both reproducing after their own kind before the ability to physically have sex evolved. They did this through "asexuality" ("without sexual desire or activity or lacking any apparent sex or sex organs"). Each of them split in half.

You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.

Human reproduction can be a sticky subject—” “Ewww!” groaned a chorus of students

Upon the union of the male germ cell with the female egg cell, a new cell is created which almost immediately splits into two parts. One of these grows rapidly, creating the human body of the individual with all its organs, and dies only with the individual.

For each chromosome contributed by the sperm there is a corresponding chromosome contributed by the egg, there are two chromosomes of each kind, which together constitute a pair.

Life needs a membrane to contain itself so it can replicate and mutate.

I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.

The idea was to study fertilization in as many different phyla and organisms as possible, using the simplest possible equipment and a microscope. Biochemical approaches were not much in vogue, and running gels impossible at first.

The origin of each of us stems from codes of genetic inheritance.

We finally understand in general terms how a cell is organized, how its specialized organs function in a well integrated manner to insure its survival and replication.

Sperm is a bandit in its pure state.

The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened.

It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection.

… members of the lucky sperm club

We know that at conception, the genetic code is there for a unique individual. This is not something that is just a religious belief.

Amoebas at the start Were not complex; They tore themselves apart And started Sex.

With a little persuasion, any familiar thing can turn abnormal in the mind. Here's a thought experiment. Consider this brutal bit of magic. A human grows a second human in a space inside her belly; she grows a second heart and a second brain, second eyes and second limbs, a complete set of second body parts as if for use as spares, and then, after almost a year, she expels that second screaming being out of her belly and into the world, alive. Bizarre, isn't it?

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