Origin Quotes

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The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold [along the shores of Japan] returns upon itself. It is an endless… — Charles Lapworth
[To] explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom ... systems are usually reduced to two classes, according as they refer to the origin of terrestrial… — John Playfair
Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has its origin in… — Ernst Haeckel
The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural philosophy, mathematical and… — Thomas Paine
The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all other attempts, to explain… — Louis Agassiz
We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to… — George Will
Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We know not its… — Thomas Aquinas
For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the world and themselves… — Emile Durkheim
It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter. — Charles Darwin
To be born, to live and to die is merely to change forms... And what does one form matter any more than another?... Each form… — John Dewey
It has sometimes been said that the success of the Origin proved "that the subject was in the air," or "that men's minds were prepared… — Charles Darwin
Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away. — Arthur Helps
Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to give no claim,… — Frederick Douglass
The infant periods of most nations are buried in silence or veiled in fable; and the world perhaps has lost but little which it needs… — James Madison
The tobacco business is a conspiracy against womanhood and manhood. It owes its origin to that scoundrel Sir Walter Raleigh, who was likewise the founder… — John Harvey Kellogg
Even if we don't have a precise idea of exactly what took place at the beginning, we can at least see that the origin of… — Paul Davies
Nothing can be defined or derided on the basis of its origin. The important thing is what is done with it and how far a… — Eduardo Galeano
I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who denounces them is… — Charles Darwin
Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and the actual findings… — Ernst Mayr
It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed by those who… — Thomas Jefferson

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