Origin Quotes

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It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had… — Jean M. Auel
Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the… — Adam Clarke
No man beholds his mother's womb Yet who denies it's there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that Endless cord that links us… — Wole Soyinka
There is a duality in recognising what an incredible disease it is - in terms of its origin, that it emerges out of a normal… — Siddhartha Mukherjee
The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters. — Damon Lindelof
The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity… — Richard Owen
That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and our reason approves… — Joseph Warren
As far as humanity is concerned the origin of stupidity is itself. — William C. Brown
My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived to Mexico when he was 14… — Carlos Slim
Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from… — George Gaylord Simpson
Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to… — Zack Snyder
I'm a huge comic book collector. When I was a kid, I had both Marvel and DC. I was my own librarian. I made card… — James Mangold
Most research into life's murky origin has been carried out by chemists. They've tried a variety of approaches in their attempts to recreate the first… — Paul Davies
My feeling is that scientific method has the power to account for and interlink all phenomena in the universe, including its origin, using the laws… — Paul Davies
Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support. — Paul Davies
Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given,' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth, and… — Paul Davies
All things in nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfill their function and make no claim. All things alike do… — Laozi
The cause of the six-sided shape of a snowflake is none other than that of the ordered shapes of plants and of numerical constants; and… — Johannes Kepler
I think the facts leave no doubt that the very mightiest among the chemical forces are of electric origin. The atoms cling to their electric… — Hermann von Helmholtz
I am about to discuss the disease called 'sacred'. It is not, in my opinion, any more divine or more sacred that other diseases, but… — Hippocrates

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