Quotes About Origin

The fabled origin of the laurel is this. Daphne, daughter of the river Peneus, offended by the persecutions of Apollo, implored succour of the gods, who changed her into a laurel tree. Apollo crowned his head with the leaves and ordered that forever after, the tree should be sacred to him.

I think origin stories are a great way to get people reinvested in a story. I mean, we originally accepted 'Star Trek' without knowing anything about Kirk or Spock. All we needed to know was that it took place in the future.

Whether they're for good or bad, all trends in the United States start in California.

I am the creation of love.I am the source of love.I am the beginning of love.I like to vanish in love.

The supreme truth is that nothing ever is born.

We all know that UFOs are real. All we need to ask is where do they come from, and what do they want?

If you don't know where you come from, then you want know when you'er being taken back.

The word 'radical' derives from the Latin word for root. Therefore, if you want to get to the root of anything you must be radical. It is no accident that the word has now been totally demonized.

early theories of the origin of life did not need to address, nor did they anticipate, this problem. Since scientists did not know about the information-bearing properties of DNA, or how the cell uses that functionally specified information to build proteins, they did not worry about explaining these features of life.

with the Darwinian view for yet another reason. The Chengjiang discoveries intensify the top-down pattern of appearance in which individual representatives of the higher taxonomic categories (phyla, subphyla, and classes) appear and only later diversify into the lower taxonomic categories (families, genera, and species).

requires the creation of entirely new information. As an increasing number of evolutionary biologists have noted, natural selection explains "only the survival of the fittest, not the arrival of the fittest.

Many origin-of-life scientists have similarly recognized how difficult it is to generate specified biological information by chance alone in the time available on the early earth (or even in the time available since the beginning of the universe).

According to Darwinian theory, differences in biological form should increase gradually, steadily increasing the number of distinct body plans and phyla, over time. References for first appearances are found in note 5 of this chapter.

FIGURE 2.7 The origin of animals. Darwinian theory (top) predicts gradual evolutionary change in contrast to the fossil evidence (bottom), which shows the abrupt appearance of the major animal groups.

Similarly, in 1968, Francis Crick suggested that the origin of the genetic code might be a "frozen accident."3 Most

Current utility and historical origin are different subjects.

idea that the Vedic Aryans came from outside of ancient India and entered the region to start what became the Vedic civilization is a foreign idea.

So as evolution progresses, consciousness becomes more involved in matter: living beings become a fuller expression of spirit and move closer to the source from which they, and all things, came.

A great stench will come from Lausanne, but they will not know its origin; they will put out all people from distant places, fire seen in the sky, a foreign nation defeated.

A lot of people tend to get intimidated by looking at a place where they're from as empty. I look at it like a clean slate.

I'm actually from a small town about an hour and a half south of Chicago.

Appleseed's orchard, is a blooming, fruiting meritocracy, in which every apple seed roots in the same soil and any seedling has an equal chance at greatness, regardless of origin or patrimony. Befitting the American success story, the botany of the apple—the fact that the one thing it won't do is come true from seed—meant

Ahora bien, aquello sobre lo que Diotima y Sócrates se interrogan es el ser mismo de este amor, su naturaleza y su origen, aquello que constituye su fuerza y aquello que lo lleva con tal obstinación o con tal locura hacia su objeto: "¿Qué es el amor mismo, cuál es su naturaleza y, por consiguiente, cuáles son sus obras?".26

méthode, selon lequel tout donné a un droit originelm » ; la psychologie phénoménologique sera élucidation de ce droit originel tel qu'il concerne le donné dans le flux immanent de la conscience : elle constituera une éidétique de la conscience tout comme les mathématiques constituent une éidétique de la nature.