(62 quotes found)
“The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds”
David Hume
“The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.”
Jerome Bruner
“The land was not the arctic waste commonly envisioned, but a fertile paradise; Puget Sound, said one rhapsodic report, was 'the Mediterranean of the Northwest”
David Lavender
“I really adore people who can look at bullshit and see fertilizer.”
Bobby W. Miller
“When a child is conceived, an egg is fertilized, and at that point the unborn child has all the DNA it will ever have. The DNA tells its hair color, eye color, skin color. ... It's a unique individual. An individual has been created with DNA that has never existed in the past and will never exist again naturally.”
Anne Newman
“The ban was only on meat, live ostrich and fertile eggs that can be hatched.”
Anton Kruger
“What we're doing that's different is we've taken a genetic approach to understand fertility.”
Andrew Singson
“The reality is that both trends are occurring. The dramatic fertility decline during the 20th century coincided with improved health, access to family planning, economic development, and urbanization.”
Carl Haub
“What we learn in studying fertilization is not only important for this event, but also for the functioning of other cells in our bodies and for understanding many of those processes.”
“This new planet may just be the tip of the iceberg. Red dwarfs may be a fertile new hunting ground for finding planets, including ones similar in mass to the earth.”
Charles Lada
