Deborah Moggach

Bringing my two children up while writing was just a part of life. I'd much rather have had their interruptions than been stuck in a sterile office. This way, I had welcome distractions. I had to load the washing machine, I had to go out and buy lemons.

English Writer

Isaac Bashevis Singer

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

American Novelist

Polykarp Kusch

Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used.

German Scientist

Abbie Hoffman

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

American Activist

Naftali Bennett

I know that 'boots on the ground' is a scary phrase and that the Western world has gotten used to sterile attacks.

Israeli Politician

Marcel Wanders

I want to create a world with objects and surroundings that are human, more romantic, and less sterile.

Dutch Designer

Ed Koch

Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.

American Politician

Charles Baudelaire

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

French Poet

Alan Alda

I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.

American Actor

John Torode

There's nothing worse than a sterile house.

Australian Chef

Used for environments or tools that must have no microbes to prevent infection.

Medical Cleanliness

'Sterile' implies a higher level of cleanliness than just 'clean' in medical contexts.

Not Just Clean

Sometimes used to describe land or soil that can't support plant life.

Barren Implication

Be cautious using 'sterile' to describe someone's inability to have children; it can be sensitive.

Sensitive Subject

It suggests an absence of originality or new ideas in creative contexts.

Lacks Creativity

Can describe situations or works lacking emotional depth or warmth.

Emotionally Void

Refers to plants that cannot bear fruit or seeds, often used in horticulture.

Ineffective Plants

Sometimes used metaphorically to mean something unproductive or without results.

Figurative Use

In animal breeding, 'sterile' can negatively imply fault or deficiency.

Careful Connotation

In agriculture or breeding, 'sterile' describes animals purposely bred or treated not to reproduce.

Specific Breeding

 that weight it's amazing isn't it the speed with which this technology can be used may allow huge improvements in how the world reacts to humanitarian crises a concrete canvas building has good thermal properties so whatever's inside is kept either cool or warm and it can even provide a sterile environment for

Concrete Tent PIPE I Didn't...

 coming out of here they're so hot they're sterile nothing can live there okay so it cares about that except that sometimes often in fact most places they're leaky and we see things like bacteria okay bacteria well these are actually pre specials because you can see those there's no microscope here

Beyond the edge of the...

 many people think that these slabs of ice are barren of life, but these seemingly sterile ice slabs also harbor their own complex ecosystems and they shape the ecosystems that they pass through. They become mobile, floating ecosystems. Even in the coldest seas, icebergs are always melting,

What's below the tip of...

 imagine you're the queen you're attended by millions of sterile worker termites who live to feed you groom you and carry your eggs away when you lay them you aren't acting helpless because you

Termite Queen Lays...

Her Majesty, The Termite...

 a few weeks after the eggs were laid the first tiny pale workers emerged from these silky cocoons all ant workers are female and sterile unable to reproduce

Best Of Animal Teamwork...

 our victorious queen begins aiding her colony in its primary reproduction. For the next several years, the colony only produces sterile workers.

Mating frenzies, sperm...

 and sterile unable to reproduce themselves their sole purpose in life is to serve the queens they darken as their bodies become harder

Best Of Ants PIPE BBC Earth

 all ant workers are female and sterile unable to reproduce themselves their sole purpose in life is to serve the queens

5 Reasons Ants Are...

 There we go. Mind the electrics. That is safe, sterile drinking water. Cheers. There you go Chris.