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Quotes About Origin

All things are from water and all things are resolved into water.
~ Thales
Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today.
~ Michael Ruse
Science can explain the universe without the need for a Creator.
~ Stephen Hawking
We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.
~ Jill Tarter
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
~ Charles Darwin
To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
~ Charles Darwin
The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars.
~ Anaxagoras
From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption -- but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance
~ Dalai Lama XIV
Some piously record 'In the beginning God', but I say 'In the beginning hydrogen'.
~ Harlow Shapley
Life is not a miracle. It is a natural phenomenon, and can be expected to appear whenever there is a planet whose conditions duplicate those of the earth.
~ Harold Urey
Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.
~ Stephen Hawking
All I ever aim to do is to put the Development hypothesis in the same coach as the creation one. It will only be a question of who is to ride outside & who in after all.
~ Joseph Dalton Hooker
Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
There is nothing in science which teaches the origin of anything at all.
~ Lord Kelvin
I think the universe was spontaneously created out of nothing, according to the laws of science. It has no beginning and no end.
~ Stephen Hawking
The science of the earth... invites us to be present at the origin of things, and to enter into the very worship of the Creator.
~ John William Dawson
According to science, the universe began as a swirl of gas that, as it cooled, spun off the Ten Commandments.
~ Robert Breault
All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.
~ G.K. Chesterton
Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.
~ Arthur Balfour
First causes are outside the realm of science.
~ Claude Bernard
What place, then, for a creator?
~ Stephen Hawking
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth, " the long out-of-print science fiction writer went on.
~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Life is chemistry, not biology.
~ Joey Lawsin, Originemology