Quotes About Origins

Man's self-destructiveness and failure to attain a telos that cures dissatisfaction suggest a disjunction in his origins to which, theologically, the name "original sin" is applied.

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

That's the problem: Most people don't know where money comes from, nor how it's created." Which, he believes, is the reason why our economy today resembles a chain letter based on the fiction of an infinite number of recipients, instead of a terrarium—such as Terra, the Earth itself.

Only an evolutionary eyeblink separated Kanu from the savannah, and that was just as true for the Risen. Their minds might be fixed on the stars, but their bodies were only a footstep from the dust and heat of Amboseli.

I think it is important to maintain your personality, your roots, very important.

I came from a two-parent household and my father is a PhD from west Africa, but at the same time I grew up five blocks from where Obama lived and five blocks from the projects.

Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

I was born and raised in Phoenix.

The main reason why people should care about research in fundamental physics is the same reason they care about astronomy and cosmology. People, children, want to know what we're made out of, how it works, and why the universe is the way it is.

My adoptive mother always wanted to meet my biological mother.

I was born in a neighborhood called the Third Ward.

The sheer number of legendary narratives and historically verifiable incidents invites us to revise assumptions about the origins of biological and chemical warfare and its moral and technological constraints.

I grew up in a trailer park in Bellingham, Washington.

If anybody asks me where I'm from, my first inclination is to say, 'Washington,' because that's where I grew up meaningfully.

Clever lines routinely travel from obscure mouths to prominent ones.

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.

They say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.

Volney wrote that civilization had been first conceived "on the borders of the Upper Nile, among a black race of men.

Darwinism gives no moral guidelines about how we should live or how doctors should practice medicine. A Darwinian perspective on medicine can, however, help us to understand the evolutionary origins of disease, and this knowledge will prove profoundly useful in achieving the legitimate goals of medicine.

Just as the capacity for experiencing fatigue has evolved to protect us from overexertion, the capacity for sadness may have evolved to prevent additional losses. Maladaptive extremes of anxiety, sadness, and other emotions make more sense when we understand their evolutionary origins and normal, adaptive functions.