Andrea Kunkle:  

drunk bum to his dog... "For the real amazement, if you wish to be amazed, is this process. You start out as a single cell derived from the coupling of a sperm and an egg; this divides in two, then four, then eight, and so on, and at a certain stage there emerges a single cell which has as all its progeny the human brain. The mere existence of such a cell should be one of the great astonishments of the earth. People ought to be walking around all day, all through their waking hours calling to each other in endless wonderment, talking of nothing except that cell." -Lewis Thomas (1979) "My dear fellow...life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence." -Arthur Conan Doyle (1891) "Between the fifth and tenth days the lump of stem cells differentiates into the overall building plan of the [mouse] embryo and its organs. It is a bit like a lump of iron turning into the space shuttle. In fact it is the profoundest wonder we can still imagine and accept, and at the same time so usual that we have to force ourselves to wonder about the wondrousness of this wonder." -Miroslav Holub (1990) "Blut is ein ganz besonderer Saft." [Blood is a very special juice.] -Wolfgang Goethe (1805) "Sexual reproduction is ... the masterpiece of nature." -Erasmus Darwin (1791) "I'd give my right arm to know the secret of regeneration." -Oscar E. Schotte (1950) "The amazing thing about mammalian development is not that it sometimes goes wrong, but that it ever succeeds." -Veronica van Heyningen (200".