Origin Quotes

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In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent living men of… — Alfred Russel Wallace
Psychology teaches us at every step that though two types of activity can have the same external manifestation, whether in origin or essence, their nature… — Lev S. Vygotsky
It takes solitude under the stars, for us to be reminded of our eternal origin and our far destiny. — Archibald Rutledge
In this simple but profound psychological way Scripture tells the history of the fall and of the origin of sin. In this way sin continues… — Herman Bavinck
When you look at that nature world it becomes an icon, it becomes a holy picture that speaks of the origins of the world. Almost… — Joseph Campbell
Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear… — Epictetus
When you see sparkling lights with no physical origin and no medical eye issues, it means that you are seeing Angel Lights, which are the… — Doreen Virtue
The doctrine of pre-existence pours a wonderful flood of light upon the otherwise mysterious problem of man's origin. It shows that man, as a spirit,… — Heber J. Grant
It is therefore proper to acknowledge that the first filaments of the chick preexist in the egg and have a deeper origin, exactly as [the… — Marcello Malpighi
It is in scientific honesty that I endorse the presentation of alternative theories for the origin of the universe, life and man in the science… — Wernher von Braun
This fundamental discovery that all bodies owe their origin to arrangements of single initial corpuscular type is the beacon that lights the history of the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that… — Bertrand Russell
Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?"… — Carl Sagan
Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could… — Paul de Man
When Charles Darwin wrote The Origin Of The Species, no one could have known that the ice cap would melt, that the waters would rise… — Alexander McQueen
The fundamental problem in the origin of species is not the origin of differences in appearance, since these arise at the level of the geographical… — David Lack
Geometry, which before the origin of things was coeternal with the divine mind and is God himself (for what could there be in God which… — Johannes Kepler
I have long held an opinion, almost amounting to conviction, in common I believe with many other lovers of natural knowledge, that the various forms… — Michael Faraday
In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary… — Charles Darwin
A sound Physics of the Earth should include all the primary considerations of the earth's atmosphere, of the characteristics and continual changes of the earth's… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

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