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Quotes About Origins

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~ Laurence Sterne
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos
It is easier to believe that there was nothing before there was something than that there was something before there was nothing.
~ Julian Huxley
Some folks seem to have descended from the chimpanzee much later than others.
~ Kin Hubbard
Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears the traces if not the stigmata of its ancestry.
~ Jacques Monod
We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?
~ Robert Ardrey, African Genesis
Proposition VIII. When two Undulations, from different Origins, coincide either perfectly or very nearly in Direction, their joint effect is a Combination of the Motions belonging to each.
~ Thomas Young
We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos
We are all star stuff.
~ Carl Sagan
Precisely because intelligent design does not turn the study of biological origins into a Bible-science controversy, intelligent design is a position around which Christians of all stripes can unite.
~ William A. Dembski
We are still too close to the birth of the universe to be certain about its death.
~ John Desmond Bernal
I Speculate on the origins of the universe .But in reality i believe the true facts are those of simple origins.And the universe is for sure out there.
~ Charlie waud
Fear mankind most when he fights with a consuming passion for what he perceives to be true." ~ Demo Cratia.
~ Farah Evers, Origins
No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man.
~ Henry Fairfield Osborn
In the Bible, a woman was made from a man. In real life, a man is made from a woman.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The words of the Bible are sources of spirit. They carry fire to the soul and evoke our lost dignity out of our hidden origins. Illumined, we suddenly remember, we suddenly recover the strength of endless longing to sense eternity in time.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
The preceding collection of stories about Einstein the young boy demonstrates the remarkable extent to which his most characteristic personal traits were native rather than acquired.
~ Abraham Pais
Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.
~ Alain de Botton
Though we can of course use our minds without being in pain, Proust's suggestion is that we become properly inquisitive only when distressed. We suffer, therefore we think, and we do so because thinking helps us to place pain in context. It helps us to understand its origins, plot its dimensions, and reconcile ourselves to its presence.
~ Alain de Botton
Perhaps because the origins of a certain kind of love lie in an impulse to escape ourselves and our weaknesses by an alliance with the beautiful and noble. But if the loved ones love us back, we are forced to return to ourselves, and are hence reminded of the things that had driven us into love in the first place? Perhaps it was not love we wanted after all, perhaps it was simply someone to believe in--but how can we believe in the beloved now that they believe in us?
~ Alain de Botton
However, the immediacy with which aesthetic judgments arise should not fool us into assuming that their origins are entirely natural or their verdicts unalterable.
~ Alain de Botton
Yes, I know that the word "school" derives from scholia, meaning leisure.
~ Alan Jacobs
with the behavior of the universe before the Big Bang a nearly mirror image of its behavior after the Big Bang. Until fourteen billion years ago, the universe was contracting. It reached a minimum size at the Big Bang (which we call t = 0) and has been expanding ever since, like a Slinky that falls to the floor, reaches a maximum compression upon impact, and then bounces back to larger dimensions.
~ Alan Lightman
I've never lifted weights in my life," Shudder responded. "My muscle mass is a natural part of my being genetically superior to you.
~ Derek Landy