Reproduction Quotes

Reproduction Quote of the day

The spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the control.

The ultimate condition of production is therefore the reproduction of the conditions of production

A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.

Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.

Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.

The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.

Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual.

Photography itself is most frequently nothing but the reproduction of the image that a group produces of its own integration.

In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.

In photography we possess an extraordinary instrument for reproduction. But photography is much more than that. Today it is [a method for bringing optically] some thing entirely new into the world.

Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

So many people dislike themselves so thoroughly that they never see any reproduction of themselves that suits. None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

Matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves.

Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.

[The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model of which it is the reproduction; it is the model.

It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of those differences in reproduction.

If you can't control your reproduction, you can't control your life.

Men's reproduction isn't regulated by the state -- and it shouldn't be. Neither should women's.

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.

The reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul.

Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.

I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.

Reproduction is more pleasurable than death.

In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation, but it cannot be an adequate reproduction of the original.

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

Therefore, I reasoned that study of the cell cycle responsible for the reproduction of cells was important and might even be illuminating about the nature of life.

No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and reason is just one of its various techniques.

Gah, some chicks should be shot. Put out of everyone else's reproduction pool.

The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an instrument unto itself.

Above all, TRIBES is fun, and even kind of sexy... in that every round features an Opportunity for Reproduction, which is the main aim of the game, as it is in most of Nature

Every time new technology is introduced, especially involving reproduction, you get the 'yuck' effect.

Even in ordinary reproduction [photography] verges on facsimile.

I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give.

Pregnancy humbles husbands. After an initial rush of male pride they quickly recognise the minor role that nature had assigned them in the drama of reproduction.

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

Big money seeks out the company of its own, for purposes of reproduction.

Since we're not very good at something as basic as controlling our reproduction, life is really bad for more people than ever before.

I'm the female equivalent of a counterfeit $20 bill. Half of what you see is a pretty good reproduction, the rest is a fraud.

If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.

What nutrition and reproduction are to physiological life, education is to social life.

The three "F"s of being a werewolf, Feeding, Fighting, and...Reproduction

There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.

Most of the psychological differences between men and women seem to come from differences in their reproductive system

If production be capitalistic in form, so, too, will be reproduction.

People who are under certain stress have aquariums. Aquariums are classically either a reproduction of nature or a decorative element, like the ones you can see in big hotels.

A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.

It's to surprise people about something that is extremely well known. I mean human reproduction, the human body, nature and so on. To surprise them with a new technique.

Life had become a reproduction: it was not the real thing.