Quotes About Origin

The beginning is the chiefest part of any work.

All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God.

God made the integers, all the rest is the work of man.

Like every writer, I am asked where my work originates, and if I knew I would go there more often to find more.

It's not a coincidence that the Bible starts with Genesis. Most people really want to know where we came from and where everything around us came from. I like to strongly push the scientific answer. We have evidence. We no longer have to rely on stories we were told when we were young.

I have no doubt that my origin and ethnicity have strongly influenced controversy over my invention of email.

Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler structure, he did not even attempt to explain how the simple light sensitive spot that was his starting point actually worked.

I wasn't born, I was ordered from room service.

The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things.

The questions that we scientist have about Saturn's rings are the questions that an ordinary person might be moved to ask when first seeing them, you know. What caused them? How did they get there? How long have they been around? How long are they going to last?

Comics have years to explain this stuff, and in a movie, you have to focus on one thing. So it's about kind of streamlining, I think. Some of the most successful origin films actually have a narrower focus.

In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell.

Most of the names in my books have secondary meaning. Sometimes they foreshadow; sometimes they tell you about the character's origin or back story.

I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.

The United States gave me opportunities that my country of origin could not: freedom of the press and complete freedom of expression.

One of the great issues in biology is the origin of altruism - of why you would do something for someone else that could hurt you - and Darwin posited that it might be rooted in maternal instinct, in sacrificing yourself for your children.

Every film has an origin. It is made under certain circumstances, and that is a very important point that should be kept in mind during a review.

Country of Origin labelling is something that consumers really want, and I think it's critical to support Australian farmers.

The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.

The problem is we disagree about the origin. Is this occupied land or not?

There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.

Today, the origin of 90% of all the edible food Gambians consume are from places they have never heard of.

There may be men who think they are attacking Christianity when they investigate the historical origin or the morality of some dogma; I do not think so. Honest investigation can result only in growth.

I am first and foremost an actress of Indian origin.