[It] is no longer a matter of taste or opinion...it is plain experimental evidence.

- Jerome Lejeune

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

- Jerome Lejeune

Only God truly forgives, man sometimes forgives, nature never forgives.

- Jerome Lejeune

Each individual has a very neat beginning, at conception.

- Jerome Lejeune

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

- 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 na…

- Jerome Lejeune

We have no acceptable theory of evolution at the present time. There is none; and I cannot accept the theory that I teach to my students each year. L…

- 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; artificia…

- Jerome Lejeune