Jerome Lejeune Quotes & Sayings

After fertilization has taken place a new human being has come into being. — Jerome Lejeune

Only God truly forgives, man sometimes forgives, nature never forgives. — Jerome Lejeune

I look forward to the day when a mongolian idiot, treated biochemically, becomes a successful geneticist. — Jerome Lejeune

To dissociate the child from love is, for our species, a methodological error: contraception, which is to make love without making a child; artificial (in vitro) fertilization, which is to make a child without making love; abortion, which is to unmake the child; and pornography, which is to unmake love: all these, to varying degrees, are incompatible with natural law. — Jerome Lejeune

Each individual has a very neat beginning, at conception. — Jerome Lejeune

To accept the fact that, after fertilization has taken place, a new human has come into being is no longer a matter of taste or opinion. The human nature of the human being from conception to old age is not a metaphysical conception. It is plain experimental evidence. — Jerome Lejeune