Quotes About Origin

So how can we test the idea that the transition from nonlife to life is simple enough to happen repeatedly? The most obvious and straightforward way is to search for a second form of life on Earth. No planet is more Earth-like than Earth itself, so if the path to life is easy, then life should have started up many times over right here.

Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its transmission today is still in part oral, because we become acquainted with poetry through nursery rhymes, which we hear before we can read.

One of the great advantages of the study of old Norse or Icelandic literature is the insight given by it into the origin of world-wide superstitions. Norse tradition is transparent as glacier ice, and its origin is as unmistakable.

Was there someone absent from the table of creation?

We are certainly descendents of the sea for our tears are salted and when we shed them on the jowl of time, the sea that has always been within us flows on our face.

Each coil has the earthquake which created it, as every death has the life that gave birth to it.

Most trees were made of wood, and so were the rest.

We should not exit from this world without finding out who we are and where we have come from. This is very important.

For even the vice which by the force of habit and long continuance has become a second nature, had its origin in the will.

The cause of things, therefore, which makes but is not made, is God; but all other causes both make and are made.

Die künftigen Darwins werden vielleicht eine These aufstellen, dass die hochentwickelten Wesen (zu denen sie zählen werden) von den Menschen abstammen. Das wird ein Schock sein!

En el principio era el Verbo y en el final el lugar común.

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Toda nuestra fantasía y toda nuestra lógica no pueden facilitarnos sino una idea insuficiente del origen de una obra de arte.

Like flowers of the field, we are each unique, yet all brought forth by the same Source.

Calvinism did not spring from Calvin. We believe that it sprang from the great Founder of all truth.

Truth is beautiful and divine, no matter how humble its origin; it is the same in the musty boiler-room as it is in the glorious stars of heaven.

The best ideas are the honest ones. Ones born out of personal experience. Ones that originated to help a few but ended up helping many.

Those who believe that... detailed rules originate in a certain cause, are as far from the truth as those who assume that the whole law is useless.

Something cannot emerge from nothing.

There is no truth that has not its source in the Author of all truth.

It is commonly believed that the rights of the American people come from the Constitution. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Truths physical have an origin as divine as truths religious.

All is race - there is no other truth.