Quotes About Origin

We are asked by science to believe that the entire universe sprang from nothingness, and at a single point and for no discernible reason. This notion is the limit case for credulity. In other words, if you can believe this, you can believe anything.

Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder how the snowplough driver gets to work, or how the makers of dictionaries look up the spelling of words.

It is important that we know where we come from, because if you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong.

If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, then you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong.

Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.

The current state of knowledge can be summarized thus: in the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

When they arrived they would briefly and passionately mate, for the first and only time, and from that fiery union new turtle would be born to carry a new pattern of worlds. This was known as the Big Bang hypothesis.

Do you know where 'policeman' comes from, sir? ... 'Polis' used to mean 'city', said Carrot. That's what policeman means: 'a man for the city'. Not many people knew that. The word 'polite' comes from 'polis', too. It used to mean the proper behaviour from someone living in a city.

Like the Buddha, we too have come from suchness, remain in suchness, and will return to suchness. We have come from nowhere and have nowhere to go.

I was born outside Kennedy Space Center.

You have so much responsibility because when you're in the kitchen, it's not just food, it's where the food comes from, what you did with production, what you did it with human interaction, and how you did it with different cultures. Food becomes a mark of activism.

No they called it the Codex Merlini because it was written by a guy named Ralph.

Olofi made Oya . . . and then he realized he'd done and quickly made Oshun.

In order to understand something really and truly well, you must know where it came from. There is no other way to appreciate its value.

cabernet sauvignon is the offspring of sauvignon blanc (which, one day, thought to be in the mid-1700s, had a nice moment in nature with cabernet franc, resulting in cabernet sauvignon).

He'd surely been spawned by some cataclysmic event of nature, not born.

What's your heritage, anyway?" I said irritably, backing away, putting more space between us. He regarded me blankly, looking startled by the personal question, and as if he lacked a frame of reference for one.

I don't know where dreams come from. Sometimes I wonder if they're genetic memories, or messages from something divine.

Echoes of unknown origin. Words that went skipping across minds for centuries, apparently, before sinking into mine.

The state is therefore everyone; the rules within the state are laws which safeguard the welfare of all and which must originate from the welfare of all.

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

Kindspech ist eben das, womit man auf die Welt kommt.

I conjecture that the origin of life and the origin of problems coincide.

My name is Sahil," he says as he looks up. "Someone told me it means leader.