[Attributing the origin of life to spontaneous generation.] However improbable we regard this event, it will almost certainly happen at least once…… — George Wald Copy Share Image
In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniencies of life which… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is 1 to a number with 40,000 noughts after it (1040,000)… It… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
A fountain is the memory of nature, this marvelous sound of a little river in the mountains translated to the city. For… — Jaume Plensa Copy Share Image
It's one of the big mysteries about Venus: How did it get so different from Earth when it seems likely to have… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
Considering the way the prebiotic soup is referred to in so many discussions of the origin of life as an already established… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
“Yet, unlike the causal specificity that obtains for microevolutionary processes, origin-of-life researchers have yet to specify the chemical pathways that supposedly originated… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
“We humans look rather different from a tree. Without a doubt we perceive the world differently than a tree does. But down… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The existence of consciousness is both one of the most familiar and one of the most astounding things about the world. No… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it absurd, it… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
We only recently figured out the origin of our own moon. And we have some idea of how the Sun and Earth… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Evolution does not attempt to explain the origin of life. It is simply a history of the process of life. With the… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
There is no agreement on the extent to which metabolism could develop independently of a genetic material. In my opinion, there is… — Leslie Orgel Copy Share Image
“I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
“Therefore the Buddha for a temporary purpose made these (uninitiated) observe the Five Precepts similar to the Five Virtues[FN#327] of the outside… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Astrobiology simply presumes that a planet in the Goldilocks zone containing liquid water will somehow produce life. This leads to the “follow-the-water”… — Cris Putnam Copy Share Image
“If it be said that it is the mind that produces Karma (I ask), what is the mind? If you mean the… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“In thinking about these questions I have been stimulated by criticisms of the prevailing scientific world picture... by the defenders of intelligent… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Since the universe must contain millions of appropriate planets, consciousness in some form - but not with the paired eyes and limbs,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all other… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
The question of the origin of life is essentially speculative. We have to construct, by straightforward thinking on the basis of very… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
To inquire into the origin of life is like seeking the origin of electrical machinery or the origin of music. Every increase… — Gilbert Newton Lewis Copy Share Image
When you look at that nature world it becomes an icon, it becomes a holy picture that speaks of the origins of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
As we survey all the evidence, the thought insistently arises that some supernatural agency-or, rather, Agency-must be involved. Is it possible that… — George Greenstein Copy Share Image
All of us who study the origin of life find that the more we look into it, the more we feel it… — Harold Urey Copy Share Image
After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“If not as a true human, let me tell you as a Biologist, color of the skin does not define an individual’s… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Why is it that skeptics are always being accused of arrogance? For the record, we're the guys who DON'T claim to have… — Guy P. Harrison Copy Share Image
“It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There is no objective reality. But there is only an illusion of consciousness, there is only an objectivication of reality, which was… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“The Kalam Cosmological Argument, The Fine-Tuning Argument, and The Local Fine-Tuning Argument all do an end-run around the issue of special creation… — Evan Minton Copy Share Image
“Biochemists assume that the three cellular kingdoms evolved from a single common ancestor, because the alternative of supposing an independent origin of… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
“My laboratory is interested in the related challenges of understanding the origin of life on the early earth, and constructing synthetic cellular… — Jack W. Szostak Copy Share Image
Not everything in man's life is summed up in the problem of food. Anyone who thinks that a civilization can be founded… — Toyohiko Kagawa Copy Share Image
Why would anybody be intimidated by mere words? I mean, neither I nor any other athiest that I know ever threatens violence.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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![“Therefore the Buddha for a temporary purpose made these (uninitiated) observe the Five Precepts similar to the Five Virtues[FN#327] of the outside doctrine, in order to enable them to escape the three (worst) States[FN#328] of Existence, and to be reborn among men. (He also taught that) those who…” quote by Kaiten Nukariya](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2bc/kaiten-nukariya-793_buddhism_therefore-the-buddha-for-a-temporary-pur_2274879.jpg)
