Quotes About Origin

Can we   conceive that man was so placed in the earth as to be ignorant of his   own origin, and of the origin of those things which he enjoyed?

From the power of God we are naturally led to consider his eternity since that from which all other things derive their origin must necessarily be selfexistent and eternal. Moreover

We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.

The evolutionary curve obviously sloped pretty gently where Six came from.

The Great Malevolence had been squatting in the blackness for a very long time. He was there billions of years before people, or dinosaurs, or small, single-celled organisms that decided one day to become larger, multicelled organisms so they could, at some point in the future, invent literature, painting, and annoying ring tones for cell phones.

A little later, remembering man's earthly origin, 'dust thou art and to dust thou shalt return,' they liked to fancy themselves bubbles of earth. When alone in the fields, with no one to see them, they would hop, skip and jump, touching the ground as lightly as possible and crying 'We are bubbles of earth! Bubbles of earth! Bubbles of earth!' —Flora Thompson, Lark Rise

There was no 'before' the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind,

Seventy-five years ago I was born in Tampico, Illinois, in a little flat above the bank building. We didn't have any other contact with the bank than that.

Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.

When I die, I will return to where I first came from. Back to the stars.

The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.

I've lived in California for half of my life. It's weird, everyone thinks of me as this guy who's from the South ... I'm really a Californian.

The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that.

The creation myth is a Darwinian device for survival.

The origin of modern humanity was a stroke of luck—good for our species for a while, bad for most of the rest of life forever. All

Thinking about thinking is the core process of the creative arts, but it tells us very little about how we think the way we do, and nothing of why the creative arts originated in the first place.

HISTORY MAKES LITTLE SENSE WITHOUT PREHISTORY, AND PREHISTORY MAKES LITTLE SENSE WITHOUT BIOLOGY. KNOWLEDGE OF PREHISTORY AND BIOLOGY IS INCREASING RAPIDLY, BRINGING INTO FOCUS HOW HUMANITY ORIGINATED AND WHY A SPECIES LIKE OUR OWN EXISTS ON THIS PLANET.

the origin of eusociality requires the preadaptation of a constructed and guarded nest site.

The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop.

Just as rose smells; similarly, every object, fragrances such as its origin since that defines real and fake identity.

I was going to remember, or discover, where everything came from. I was going to do the subtle, monstrous thing where you figured out what you were doing, and why.

How did you separate where someone was from, from who they were?

A creative life has nothing to do with where you're from or how much money you earn. It's merely a reflection of the creative intellect.