Embryos Quotes

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

  Todd Akin

  Unique, May, Information

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• Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, God, Desire

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from May 10, 2011

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• Society does not need more children; but it does need more loved children. Quite literally, we cannot afford unloved children - but we pay heavily for them every day. There should not be the slightest communal concern when a woman elects to destroy the life of her thousandth-of-an-ounce embryo. But all society should rise up in alarm when it hears that a baby that is not wanted is about to be born.

  Garrett Hardin

  Baby, Children, Feminist

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• What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Littles, Causes, Little Things

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• Our real teacher has been and still is the embryo, who is, incidentally, the only teacher who is always right.

  Viktor Hamburger

  Teacher, Real, Stills

  Viktor Hamburger, Society for Developmental Biology (1968). “The emergence of order in developing systems”

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• My plans are still in embryo, a town on the edge of wishful thinking.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

  Samuel Butler

  Life, Men, History

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4087, Delphi Classics

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• This was our last stop. This was it. We had those two embryos that we had banked prior to learning about the breast cancer, and with the medicine she was on, this was our last effort. The prayers were answered.

  Bill Rancic

  Prayer, Cancer, Two

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• I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning.

  Mitt Romney

  Creating, Cells, Cloning

  Press conference, May 2005.

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• It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life.

  Lewis Wolpert

  Life, Marriage, Death

  "From Egg to Embryo: Determinative Events in Early Development". Book by J.M.W. Slack, Ch. 1, 1999.

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• The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them.

  Ken Calvert

  Purpose, Cloning, Research

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• Each year thousands of embryos, no bigger than the head of a pin, are created in the process of in vitro fertilization, with the support of Congress, by the way.

  Lois Capps

  Years, Support, Way

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• We are here simply to decide whether Congress should take the taxpayer dollars of millions of pro-life Americans and use them to fund the destruction of human embryos for research.

  Mike Pence

  Pro Life, Dollars, Use

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We can continue to make significant strides in the scientific community by exploring new stem cell research methods that do not include destroying human embryos.

  John Boehner

  Cells, Community, Research

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• What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for the lives of Iraqis as he does for the lives of Americans, or even frozen American embryos.

  Peter Singer

  Book, Doe, Frozen

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• The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life, Passion, Soul

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• Well, there are two kinds of stem cells: adult stem cells, which you can get from any part of a grown body, and embryonic stem cells. These are the inner- core of days-old embryos that can develop into any kind of cell.

  Mort Kondracke

  Cells, Two, Adults

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• Indeed, religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are highly immoral - that is, when pressing these concerns inflicts unnecessary and appalling suffering on innocent human beings. This explains why Christians like yourself expend more "moral" energy opposing abortion than fighting genocide. It explains why you are more concerned about human embryos than about the lifesaving promise of stem-cell research. And it explains why you can preach against condom use in sub-Saharan Africa while millions die from AIDS there each year. (25)

  Sam Harris

  Christian, Fighting, Condom Use

  Sam Harris (2006). “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethically challenged science. But spend the people's money on proven blood cord, bone marrow, germ cell, and adult cell research.

  Roger Wicker

  Money, Cells, Blood

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• I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Religious, Believe, Moral

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• Although life is a continuous process, fertilization is a critical landmark because, under ordinary circumstances, a new, genetically distinct human organism is thereby formed.... The combination of 23 chromosomes present in each pronucleus results in 46 chromosomes in the zygote. Thus the diploid number is restored and the embryonic genome is formed. The embryo now exists as a genetic unity.

  Ronan O'Rahilly

  Numbers, Unity, Ordinary

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• The term pre-embryo is useful in the political arena - where decisions are made about whether to allow early embryo (now called pre-embryo) experimentation - as well as in the confines of a doctor's office, where it can be used to allay moral concerns that might be expressed by IVF patients. 'Don't worry,' a doctor might say, 'it's only pre-embryos that we're manipulating or freezing. They won't turn into real human embryos until after we've put them back into your body.'

  Lee M. Silver

  Real, Ivf, Doctors

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• I thought, we can’t keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.

  Shinya Yamanaka

  Research, Way, Destroying

  "Risk Taking Is in His Genes" by Martin Fackler, www.nytimes.com. December 11, 2007.

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• When I saw the embryo, I suddenly realized there was such a small difference between it and my daughters. I thought, we can't keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.

  Shinya Yamanaka

  Daughter, Mother, Differences

  "Risk Taking Is in His Genes". Interview with Martin Fackler, www.nytimes.com. December 11, 2007.

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• Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.

  Karl Marx

  Museums, Civilization, Dancer

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1976). “Collected works”

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