Origin Quotes

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Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history. — Charles Darwin
Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY POOR!!. The fact is, he… — Asa Gray
All of us who study the origin of life find that the more we look into it, the more we feel it is too complex… — Harold Urey
An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at… — Francis Crick
The constitution of human nature" teaches us not to expect "that the persons, entrusted with the administration of the affairs of the particular members of… — Alexander Hamilton
On a perfect planet such as might be acceptable to a physicist, one might predict that from its origin the diversity of life would grow… — Simon Conway Morris
As we begin the 21st century, the Hubble space telescope is providing us with information about as yet uncharted regions of the universe and the… — Floyd E. Bloom
The genetic theory of homosexuality has been generally discarded today. . . . Despite the interest in possible hormone mechanisms in the origin of homosexuality,… — William H. Masters
It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The spirit of humanity, like the forces of nature, and like the physical life, is at bottom energy.... Spiritual life, therefore, is just as much… — John H. Dietrich
For the little that one has reflected on the origin of our knowledge, it is easy to perceive that we can acquire it only by… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind has put into nature.… — Arthur Eddington
More than a rejection or dissolution of the past, avant-garde originality is conceived as a literal origin, a beginning from ground zero, a birth. — Rosalind E. Krauss
Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The language of art is celestial in origin and can only be understood by the chosen. — El Greco
The word "mathematics" is a Greek word and, by origin, it means "something that has been learned or understood," or perhaps "acquired knowledge," or perhaps… — Salomon Bochner
Truths physical have an origin as divine as truths religious. — David Brewster
The science of the earth... invites us to be present at the origin of things, and to enter into the very worship of the Creator. — John William Dawson
In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destination of the universe, and… — Auguste Comte
The origin and the causes of disease are far too recondite for the human mind to unravel them. — Giorgio Baglivi

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