Carolus Linnaeus Quotes

I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.

The problem that we, as living organisms, face - and not we only, humans, but any living organism faces - is the management of life.

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.

I come from a large family so you can count on the fact that I'm going to have more kids.

First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.

Hormones get no respect. We think of them as the elusive chemicals that make us a bit moody, but these magical little molecules do so much more.

Children are part of the natural pattern of life. For centuries people have been having children and going to work. You get on with it, that's what life's about.

Leaving the complications of the human breakfast-table out of account, in an elemental sense, the egg only exists to produce the chicken. But the chicken does not exist only in order to produce another egg. He may also exist to amuse himself, to praise God, and even to suggest ideas to a French dramatist. Being a conscious life, he is, or may be, valuable in himself.

Childbirth is no more a miracle then eating food and a turd coming out of your ass.

Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.

Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.

Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to "animalcules," have talked of electrical forces, the first and last appeal of ignorance.

Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand.

We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.

By putting business before every other manifestation of life, our mechanical and financial civilization has forgotten the chief business of life: namely, growth, reproduction, development. It pays infinite attention to the incubator-and it forgets the egg!

The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old.

By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.

Lust is the cause of generation.

The egg cackles and lays the chicken.

A man would create another man if one did not already exist, but a woman might live an eternity without even thinking of reproducing her own sex.

The egg it is the source of all To everyone's ancestral hall.

For some people, getting pregnant is as easy as catching cold." And there certainly was an analogy there: Colds and babies were both caused by germs which loved nothing so much as a mucous membrane.

Most oldsters are fascinated by the Future, while the young love to look back to earlier days, especially their own.