River out of Eden (1995)
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 12, Dangers of the Dress Suit in Politics
“Growing old: the most common mitochondrial disease of all?”
Title of article published in Natural Genetics (1992), 2:251-2; cited in Stephen Waxman (2010) Molecular Neurology. p. 536
“Imagine using as an authority in the matter of marriage the opinion of a celibate priest!”
The Philosophy of Atheism
“There are certain wives whose confinement makes sarcastic celibates smile.”
Il y a des femmes dont la grossesse fait sourire quelque célibataire sournois.
Part I, Meditation II: Marriage Statistics http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Physiology_of_Marriage/Part_1/Med_2
Physiology of Marriage (1829)
“I have never been a celibate. If people believe so, that is their foolishness.”
The Last Testament : Interviews with the World Press (1986)
Context: I have never been a celibate. If people believe so, that is their foolishness. I have always loved women — and perhaps more women than anybody else. You can see my beard: it has become grey so quickly because I have lived so intensely that I have compressed almost two hundred years into fifty.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 556.
“DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.”
Source: River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
Source: Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), Chapter 3, “The Message from the Mountain” (pp. 89-90)
Reportedly said by Trump after he was hospitalized with COVID-19, following an outbreak of the disease in the White House; the quote actually originates from an image featuring a fabricated subtitle overlaid on a video released by the President while he was in Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-coronavirus-kill-body/
Misattributed
