Quotes About Origins

What happened before all this? What happened before the beginning? Astrophysicists have no idea. Or, rather, our most creative ideas have little or no grounding in experimental science. In response, some religious people assert, with a tinge of righteousness, that something must have started it all: a force greater than all others, a source from which everything issues. A prime mover. In the mind of such a person, that something is, of course, God.

The Universe was opaque until 380.000 years after the Big Bang.

Cosmologists have plenty of ego. How could you not when your job is to deduce what brought the universe into existence?

But what if the universe was always there, in a state or condition we have yet to identify—a multiverse, for instance, that continually births universes? Or what if the universe just popped into existence from nothing? Or what if everything we know and love were just a computer simulation rendered for entertainment by a superintelligent alien species?

The four most common, chemically active elements in the universe—hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen—are the four most common elements of life on Earth

The universe continues to evolve. And yes, every one of our body's atoms is traceable to the big bang and to the thermonuclear furnaces within high-mass stars that exploded more than five billion years ago.

Everyone likes to look for aliens, but I think we are the aliens. We're the descendants of the troublemakers on other planets. Just like Australia was a prison to England, where they sent all their criminals and so on, it's the same thing on Earth. This is where they dropped us off. We're the insane fucking people from somewhere else, just a bunch of trash.

Muslims, Christians, and Jews all trace their origins to the prophet and patriarch Abraham. The Prophet Muhammad is descended from Abraham's oldest son, Ishmael, and Moses and Jesus are descended from Isaac," he informed

The convenient thing about biological warfare has always been easy deniability, and its untraceable origins.

Banknotes (which originated in seventh-century China) are pieces of paper which have next to no intrinsic worth. They are simply promises to pay (hence their original Western designation as 'promissory notes')

without easy credit creation a true bubble cannot occur. That is why so many bubbles have their origins in the sins of omission or commission of central banks.

Because of what I did and where I came from, people just assumed I'd climbed every mountain in my country.

I'm a mudboy. I came from the mud, oozed out the concrete. I'm not a rose. I'm a mudboy: I came from nothing.

My mum's American. She's from Detroit.

I'm from Munich. I was born here in this town.

I come from Landsberg am Lech, not so far from Munich.

I want some fact-based evidence about where we came from. Things we consider mysterious need not be attributed to a deity.

A full understanding of what happens in our everyday lives needs to take into account what happened at the Big Bang. And not only is that intrinsically interesting and just kind of cool to think about, but it's also a mystery that is not given much attention by working scientists; it's a little bit underappreciated.

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

I wanted to think about our creation myth; you know, what is the fundamental story that defines America. And it certainly is the West.

My father's family can be traced back to 1400. I've been told by gypsies that there is unmistakeably gypsy blood in me. Lee is a gypsy name, you know.

My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.

My father named me Kelli because 'Kelli O'Hara' just sounded so Irish.

My son was made on North Beach, and my daughter was named after Nazare.