#reproduction

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#fewer #fewer people #how #improved #just

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. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#biological #chief #city #convert #creativity

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

— Robert Nozick

#better #cooperation #engage #evolutionary #process

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. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#cell #cells #cycle #even #i

Reproduction is more pleasurable than death. ↗

— Herman E. Daly

#life #reproduction #death

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. ↗

— David Brin

#aim #even #every #features #fun

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay. ↗

— Martin Luther

#clay #consulted #continue #generation #god

Nevertheless, if you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane. A child allows us to revisit the excitement we once felt about, well... everything. A generation later, our grandkids bump up our enthusiasm yet again. Reproducing is a kind of booster shot to keep us loving life. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#reproduction #life

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

— Haruki Murakami

#psychology #reproduction #men

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. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#birth #bound #decadence #empires #fate