Albrecht von Haller Quote

The ovary of an ancestress will contain not only her daughter, but also her granddaughter, her great-grand-daughter, and her great-great-granddaughter, and if it is once proved that an ovary can contain many generations, there is no absurdity in saying that it contains them all.

Contributions from the Biological Laboratories in Princeton University, Volume 15 (Princeton University Press, 1942), p. 334