Origin Quotes

672 quotes by 531 authors

To invoke the origin of the DNA/protein machine by invoking a supernatural Designer is to explain precisely nothing - for it leaves unexplained the origin… — Richard Dawkins
Rights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another. It is impossible to discover any origin of… — Thomas Paine
The principle of [divine] purpose... stares the biologist in the face wherever he looks... The probability for such an event as the origin of DNA… — Ernst Boris Chain
You can't hate your origin and not end up hating yourself. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself. — Malcolm X
There is no other possibility for possessing certitude with regard to one's life apart from self-abandonmen t, in a continuous crescendo, into the hands of… — Pope Benedict XVI
Almost all the civil liberty now enjoyed in the world owes its origin to the principles of the christian religion. — Noah Webster
No biologist has actually seen the origin by evolution of a major group of organisms. — G. Ledyard Stebbins
As you grow and change, you become possibly someone else.Â You want to go back to your family of origin and say, â€˜Do you still… — Jill Soloway
If I as a geologist were called upon to explain briefly our modern ideas of the origin of the earth and the development of life… — Wallace Pratt
Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair. — Elyse Fitzpatrick
Every philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism. — Thomas Huxley
We offer a new way for those people of Indian origin to make a difference in their country - and to make some money. — Will Poole
But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these… — Robert B. Laughlin
From its origin to the present hour, in all its vicissitudes, Masonry has been the steady unwearing friend of man. — Theodore Roosevelt
May the Lord be with us at all times, under all circumstances; may he bring into our lives a burning desire to uphold the Constitution,… — J. Reuben Clark
The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease… — Johann Most
We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards. — Arthur E Waite
We are African in origin and American in birth. — Timothy Thomas Fortune
But the origin of the American Republic is distinguished by peculiar circumstances. Other nations have been driven together by fear and necessity-the governments have generally… — Noah Webster
The issues which today confront the nation are clearly defined and so fundamental as to directly involve the very survival of the Republic. Are we… — Douglas MacArthur

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