Origin Quotes

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Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin. — Ivan Pavlov
I disagree with the concept that somehow or another we're going to pack up 10, to 12, to 15 million people and ship them back… — Rick Perry
I asked all of our recruiters to give me all resumes of prospective employees with their name, gender, place of origin, and age blacked out.… — Eric Ries
Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become. — Jean Rostand
Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount… — Salman Rushdie
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. — Bertrand Russell
Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves… — Michael Shermer
The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels… — Cat Stevens
Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound.… — Cat Stevens
In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil… — Emanuel Swedenborg
Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves. — U Thant
A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its… — Emma Thompson
For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals. — Edward Thorndike
Darwin's theory of evolution is a framework by which we understand the diversity of life on Earth. But there is no equation sitting there in… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison. — Simone Weil
There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed. — Len Wein
In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time. — E. O. Wilson
Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human… — E. O. Wilson
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. — William Wordsworth

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