[A] planet, wholly inhabited by spiders, (which is very…

“If it be said that it is the mind that produces Karma (I ask), what is the mind? If you mean the heart, the…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single…

— Lewis Thomas

All of us who study the origin of life find that the more we look into it, the more we feel it is too…

— Harold Urey

One of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Yet, unlike the causal specificity that obtains for microevolutionary processes, origin-of-life researchers have yet to specify the chemical pathways that supposedly originated life. For…

— William A. Dembski

Evolution does not attempt to explain the origin of life. It is simply a history of the process of life. With the secret cause…

— Lyman Abbott

The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science.

— Paul Davies

“The existence of consciousness is both one of the most familiar and one of the most astounding things about the world. No conception of…

— Thomas Nagel

A fountain is the memory of nature, this marvelous sound of a little river in the mountains translated to the city. For me, a…

— Jaume Plensa

In the southern countries and in the regions and continents like Africa, which is where the origin of life on earth began, there is…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

There is no agreement on the extent to which metabolism could develop independently of a genetic material. In my opinion, there is no basis…

— Leslie Orgel

As we survey all the evidence, the thought insistently arises that some supernatural agency-or, rather, Agency-must be involved. Is it possible that suddenly, without…

— George Greenstein

When you look at that nature world it becomes an icon, it becomes a holy picture that speaks of the origins of the world.…

— Joseph Campbell

Why is it that skeptics are always being accused of arrogance? For the record, we're the guys who DON'T claim to have absolute knowledge…

— Guy P. Harrison

Give us detailed, testable, mechanistic accounts for the origin of life, the origin of the genetic code, the origin of ubiquitous bio macromolecules and…

— William A. Dembski