Origin Quotes

672 quotes by 531 authors

According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin. — Ellsworth Huntington
That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin -… — Hans Kung
It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties stand… — Adolf Loos
I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its… — Felix Bloch
Furthermore, the spirit of enterprise which had its first intellectual development in England has especially flourished here as well as throughout all of Canada, while… — Charles E. Wilson
Thus the genetic basis to the origin of bird species is to be sought in the inheritance of adult traits that are subject to natural… — Peter R. Grant
What is the origin of God? — John Clayton
Darwin recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in… — George Gaylord Simpson
Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of… — Frederick Soddy
Yet did that Antiochus, who was also called Dionysius, become an origin of troubles again. — Flavius Josephus
I have thus given you a full statement of all that I know respecting the origin of Mormonism. — Charles Anthon
On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays?… — Victor Francis Hess
Whatever things may have been in their origin, they are what they are, both in themselves and in regard to their indications respecting other beings… — Goldwin Smith
Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its transmission today is still in part oral, because… — James Fenton
Each play I write has its own unique origin story. — Lynn Nottage
The system of revealed truth which this Book contains is like that of the universe, concealed from common observation yet...the centuries have established its Divine… — Isaac Newton
Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than… — Horace Mann
LORE, n. Learning --particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular course of instruction but comes of the reading of occult books, or… — Ambrose Bierce
Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. — Dante Alighieri
The changes wrought by time are like the gathering of a river which feeds stream upon stream from innumerable precipitations of water. We are surprised… — Bob Seger

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