Origin Quotes

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In a sense, a cyborg has no origin story in the Western sense â€“ a â€˜finalâ€™ irony since the cyborg is also the awful apocalyptic… — Donna J. Haraway
We can now say with considerable confidence that the Bible is not a history of anyone's past.... The Bible's "Israel" is a literary fiction... Not… — Thomas L. Thompson
You are not an accident. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He wanted you alive and created you for a purpose.… — Rick Warren
The Latin words humus, soil/earth, and homo, human being, have a common derivation, from which we also get our word 'humble.' This is the Genesis… — Eugene H. Peterson
It from Bit symbolizes the idea that every item of the physical world has at bottom an immaterial source and explanation... that all things physical… — John Archibald Wheeler
When one analyzes the pre-conscious step to concepts, one always finds ideas which consist of 'symbolic images.' The first step to thinking is a painted… — Wolfgang Pauli
Because of their origin and purpose, the meanings of art are of a different order from the operational meanings of science and technics: they relate,… — Lewis Mumford
If the tribal peoples actually represented Western origins at a much earlier time, it was exceedingly valuable that they should be studied intensely for clues… — Vine Deloria, Jr.
I take higher ground. I hold that in the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by color, and other… — John C. Calhoun
The Phenomenon of Man stands square in the tradition of Naturphilosophie, a philosophical indoor pastime of German origin which does not seem even by accident… — Peter Medawar
Each species may have had its origin in a single pair, or individual, where an individual was sufficient, and species may have been created in… — Charles Lyell
As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know… — Alfred Russel Wallace
The big bang theory requires a recent origin of the Universe that openly invites the concept of creation. — Fred Hoyle
Either human intelligence ultimately owes its origin to mindless matter; or there is a Creator. It is strange that some people claim that it is… — John Lennox
No attempt to explain the world, either scientifically or theologically, can be considered successful until it accounts for the paradoxical conjunction of the temporal and… — Paul Davies
Many investigators feel uneasy stating in public that the origin of life is a mystery, even though behind closed doors they admit they are baffled. — Paul Davies
I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part… — Chen-Ning Yang
The witches do not know the origin of their cult. — Gerald Gardner
You see, I'm a mighty proud gal and I can't for the life of me, find any valid reason why anyone should lie about their… — Fredi Washington
There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species,… — Al Capp

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