Rex Stout Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

Biology is far from understanding exactly how a single cell develops into a baby, but research suggests that human development can ultimately be explained in terms of biochemistry and molecular biology. Most scientists would make a similar statement about evolution.

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

Now an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but in fact the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person. All you add is food and climate control, and some time, and the embryo becomes you or me.

I like trying to get pregnant, I'm not so sure about childbirth.

The process of the body changing and making a whole human fascinates me.

'Entropy' broadly means tending towards chaos constantly.

You're an entropic chaos factor

Entropy and optimism: the twin forces that make the world go around.

When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backwards, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd?

Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)

If there is no randomness in the universe, then what do we mean by chaos?

I remember clearly that when I was little it was explained to me [that] the way that babies were made was that God put the baby into some lady's stomach, right? And, at some point, I learned how it really happened, and really that was the beginning of the end of my belief in God. Up until that point, it had always been a really weird act of intervention on God's part.

Life sucks order from a sea of disorder.

Heredity is to-day the central problem of biology. This problem may be approached from many sides—that of the breeder, the experimenter, the statistician, the physiologist, the embryologist, the cytologist—but the mechanism of heredity can be studied best by the investigation of the germ cells and their development.

Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability.

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.

Modern technology gives us surprising glimpses into human development. It helps us plan for and celebrate new life.

I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.

The process of birth and the growth of human body into a complicated system are still a marvel for me.

The idea for 'Ballet Baby' started when I was going through my own pregnancy.