Origin Quotes

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The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and… — Anaxagoras
The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We don't tend to ask where a lake comes from. It lies before us, contained and complete, tantalizing in its depth but not its origin.… — John Daniel
The Mandrake is the "Tree of Knowledge" and the burning love ignited by its pleasure is the origin of the human race — Hugo Rahner
There should be a readiness, on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it may lead us, and to submit, without… — Simon Greenleaf
We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it. — Arthur Peacocke
Originally man was made in the image of God, but now his likeness to God is a stolen one. As the image of God man… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science. — Paul Davies
The Bible is teh means through which we are introduced to Jesus and invited to follow Him in the life of humility and service. Secured… — Richard J. Foster
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 about… — Guy P. Harrison
The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth. — Sidney Altman
Give us detailed, testable, mechanistic accounts for the origin of life, the origin of the genetic code, the origin of ubiquitous bio macromolecules and assemblages… — William A. Dembski
All the laws made for the betterment of workers' lives have their origin with the workers. Hours are shortened,wages go up, conditions are better----only if… — Mary Heaton Vorse
Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems — Walt Whitman
Everybody Moral courage is a virtue of higher cast and nobler origin than physical. It springs from a consciousness of virtue and renders a man,… — Samuel Griswold Goodrich
In some socialist states well-performed work is rewarded with moral stimulants instead of material ones. However, the moral stimulants cannot be explained by materialistic philosophy.… — Alija Izetbegovic
Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more… — Avi Arad
Wisdom is not just knowing fundamental truths, if these are unconnected with the guidance of life or with a perspective on its meaning. If the… — Robert Nozick
Beauty can only be best described at its origin through a befuddling silence, the kind that leaves one almost on the verge of a pleasurable… — Faraaz Kazi
Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from the East or… — Rumi

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