The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science. — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth. — Sidney Altman Copy Share Image
“If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
One of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You don't like to be lied to, by your friends or in your business dealings. So why would you want to be… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Evolution has just been dealt its death blow. After reading Origins of Life with my background in chemistry and physics, it is… — Richard Smalley Copy Share Image
In short there is not a shred of objective evidence to support the hypothesis that life began in an organic soup here… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Many investigators feel uneasy stating in public that the origin of life is a mystery, even though behind closed doors they admit… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved. — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
In the southern countries and in the regions and continents like Africa, which is where the origin of life on earth began,… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
“The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
Give us detailed, testable, mechanistic accounts for the origin of life, the origin of the genetic code, the origin of ubiquitous bio… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
One must conclude that, contrary to the established and current wisdom, a scenario describing the genesis of life on earth by chance… — Hubert Yockey Copy Share Image
“I think of the universe as an engine. Perhaps we are a very small, yet very important part of this engine. What… — Aaron B. Powell 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
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
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
I often reflect on what an extraordinary time (pun intended) it is to be alive here in the beginning of the twenty-first… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Order can arise from chaos without anyone or anything directing the process when unstable combinations of atoms perish and others persist. In… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
“Even before the exact answer was reached, Crick crystallized its fundamental principles in a statement that he called (and is called to… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“An example of such emergent phenomena is the origin of life from non-living chemical compounds in the oldest, lifeless oceans of the… — R.W. van Bemmelen 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
“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
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
“To establish evolutionary interrelatedness invariably requires exhibiting similarities between organisms. Within Darwinism, there's only one way to connect such similarities, and that's… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
“The theory of phlogiston was an inversion of the true nature of combustion. Removing phlogiston was in reality adding oxygen, while adding… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
“There is nothing," (the author of) Madhyamika-castra[FN#369] says, "that ever came into existence without direct and indirect causes. Therefore there is anything… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Yāwshu (Jesus) is the son of the Canaano-Phoenician Most High God Ēl-Alyon, being the Son of the Virgin Lady Maryām by the… — Karim El Koussa Copy Share Image
“There are many subtle variants of theistic evolution, but a typical version rests upon the following premises: The universe came into being… — Francis S. Collins 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
“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
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
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
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