Origin Quotes

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The question of the origin of life is essentially speculative. We have to construct, by straightforward thinking on the basis of very few factual observations,… — John Desmond Bernal
Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person. — Sigmund Freud
If it is true that an influx of doubt and uncertainty actually marks periods of healthy growth in a science, then evolutionary biology is flourishing… — Niles Eldredge
The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass. — Epictetus
There is no theory of a God, of an author of Nature, of an origin of the Universe, which is not utterly repugnant to my… — Harriet Martineau
We can look high or we can look low in books or in journals, but the result is the same. The scientific literature has no… — Michael Behe
All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened the latter speculation… — Harriet Martineau
So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was… — Oscar Wilde
Going back to the origin is called peace; it means reversion to destiny. Reversion to destiny is called eternity. Those who know eternity are called… — Laozi
Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell of a lately… — Pliny the Elder
A fountain is the memory of nature, this marvelous sound of a little river in the mountains translated to the city. For me, a fountain… — Jaume Plensa
I have long been an ardent believer in the science of Homeopathy and I feel happy that it has got now a greater hold in… — Rabindranath Tagore
In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity and perfection as… — John Dewey
The family in the West is finished... its origin was economic, not biological... the odd group of strangers that make up every family no longer… — Gore Vidal
The continuation of authority has frequently proved the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments, because there is… — Simon Bolivar
It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in… — Ezra Pound
The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions. — Henri Bergson
The distinction that Jews have themselves always made between Jews of German origin and Jews of East European origin is as stringent as that between… — Diana Trilling
To compare Tensegrity with yoga or t'ai chi is not possible. It has a different origin and a different purpose. The origin is shamanic, the… — Carlos Castaneda

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