A c.2002 photo of hand-written notes by Libb Thims, in the front matter of his copy of Matt Ridley’s Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (1999), wherein he is attempting to formulate a chemical symbol notation for a male Mx, female Fy, and baby Bc, per the reproductive reaction. |
Male + Female → Baby
Mx + Fy → Bc
AB + CD → AC + BD
“Just as man and woman attract one another, so oxygen attracts hydrogen, and, in loving union with it, forms water, that mighty omnipresent element, without which no life nor thought would be possible.”— Ludwig Buchner (c.1880), quoted by Henry Finck (1887) as an example of gross materialism [1]
“Just as man and woman attract one another, so oxygen attracts hydrogen, and, in loving union with it, forms water, that mighty omnipresent element, without which no life nor thought would be possible.”— Ludwig Buchner (c.1880), quoted by Henry Finck (1887) as an example of gross materialism [1]
“I am not prepared to deny or assert any proposition which concerns myself; but certainly this solitary struggle with platitudinous atoms, called men and women by courtesy, leads me to wish for my wife again. How did I ever hit on the only woman in the world who fits my cravings and never sounds hollow anywhere? Social chemistry—the mutual attraction of equivalent human molecules—is a science yet to be created, for the fact is my daily study and only satisfaction in life.”— Henry Adams (1885), Letter to wife Clover Adams, Apr 12 [3]
“At one point, a minority of some of the more extreme Christians (following Aristotle) doubted whether women had souls, or at least had souls of the same quality as men.”— Francis Crick (1995), The Astonishing Hypothesis [2]
“Women initiate negotiations four times less often than men, resulting in getting less of what they want—promotion opportunities, plum assignments, and higher pay.”— Selena Rezvani (2012), Pushback: How Smart Women Ask – and Stand Up – For What They Want (ΡΊ)