
Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
Stanza 28
The Schoolmistress (1737-48)
Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
“Think how it is to have a conversation with an embryo.”
As quoted in The Enlightened Mind (1991), edited by Stephen Mitchell
Context: Little by little, wean yourself. This is the gist of what I have to say. From an embryo, whose nourishment comes in the blood, move to an infant drinking milk, to a child on solid food, to a searcher after wisdom, to a hunter of more invisible game.
Think how it is to have a conversation with an embryo. You might say, "The world outside is vast and intricate. There are wheatfields and mountain passes, and orchards in bloom. At night there are millions of galaxies, and in sunlight the beauty of friends dancing at a wedding."
You ask the embryo why he, or she, stays cooped up in the dark with eyes closed. Listen to the answer.
There is no "other world." I only know what I've experienced. You must be hallucinating.
1990s, I Am a Man, a Black Man, an American (1998)
“Any kind of manipulation with human embryos should be prohibited.”
As quoted in "Dr. Frankenstein, I Presume?" by Andrew Ross in Salon (February 1997).
Clip from YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h00oBDCODs
Allen Iverson's reaction to being benched by Sixers coach Chris Ford in April 2004.
“My plans are still in embryo, a town on the edge of wishful thinking.”
“I'm old enough to make you look like an embryo. [Thorn]”
Source: Bad Moon Rising
“We want to know what genes the human embryo needs to become a healthy baby.”
“Scientists are more profitably occupied at the bench that in the library”
Source: Information service in libraries (1958), p. 9