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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
Of all the statements that have been made with respect to theories on the origin of life, the statement that the Second… — Duane Gish Copy Share Image
Myth was regarded as primary; it was concerned with what was thought to be timeless and constant in our existence. Myth looked… — Karen Armstrong 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
A thing is either alive or it isn’t; there is nothing that is almost alive. There is but the remotest possibility of… — Donald C. Peattie Copy Share Image
“Every other aspect of life that was once attributed to divine intent is now elegantly and completely explained in the context of… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
“It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The chance that higher life forms might have emerged through evolutionary processes is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence… — Wernher von Braun 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 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
“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
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
The important point is that since the origin of life belongs in the category of at-least-once phenomena, time is on its side.… — George Wald Copy Share Image
The notion that science does not concern itself with first causes - that it leaves the field to theology or metaphysics, and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“He argued that we are so helpless at birth that, if the first human infants had been put into the world on… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
When it comes to the origin of life there are only two possibilities: creation or spontaneous generation. There is no third way.… — George Wald Copy Share Image
[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
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
“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
“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
![“[Attributing the origin of life to spontaneous generation.] However improbable we regard this event, it will almost certainly happen at least once… The time... is of the order of two billion years… Given so much time, the "impossible" becomes possible, the possible probable, and the probable…” quote by George Wald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e29/george-wald-9544_billions_attributing-the-origin-of-life-to-sponta_2720904.jpg)
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