EGG in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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1 One egg, one embryo, one adult--normality.
2 But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide.
3 Eight minutes of hard X-rays being about as much as an egg can stand.
4 For in nature it takes thirty years for two hundred eggs to reach maturity.
5 They could make sure of at least a hundred and fifty mature eggs within two years.
6 The whole of a small factory staffed with the products of a single bokanovskified egg.
7 By which time the original egg was in a fair way to becoming anything from eight to ninety-six embryos--a prodigious improvement, you will agree, on nature.
8 Identical twins--but not in piddling twos and threes as in the old viviparous days, when an egg would sometimes accidentally divide; actually by dozens, by scores at a time.
9 The procession advanced; one by one the eggs were transferred from their test-tubes to the larger containers; deftly the peritoneal lining was slit, the morula dropped into place, the saline solution poured in.
10 Under the microscopes, their long tails furiously lashing, spermatozoa were burrowing head first into eggs; and, fertilized, the eggs were expanding, dividing, or if bokanovskified, budding and breaking up into whole populations of separate embryos.