Origins Quotes

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Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease. — Daniel Barenboim
If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an… — Wendell Berry
To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators. — Tony Campolo
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. — Dante Alighieri
When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its… — Albert Claude
The chemical differences among various species and genera of animals and plants are certainly as significant for the history of their origins as the differences… — Ray Lankester
If we ever establish contact with intelligent aliens living on a planet around a distant star ... They would be made of similar atoms to… — Martin Rees
The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be… — W. Somerset Maugham
Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims for itself, invokes… — Christopher Hitchens
Now, as I move through my fifties, I can be professional and domestic, creative and intellectual, patient and urgent. I have learned that we should… — Susan Sarandon
When you look at that nature world it becomes an icon, it becomes a holy picture that speaks of the origins of the world. Almost… — Joseph Campbell
Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions. — Antonio Gaudi
The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to… — Blaise Pascal
Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance ends.… — Richard Dawkins
We see in Islam a religion that traces its origins back to God's call on Abraham. We share your belief in God's justice, and your… — George W. Bush
At times, Singer Johnny Cash rubbed dirt from the earth under his fingernails in order to avoid any arrogance which might stem from his fame,… — Robert Hilburn
I think that physics is the most important-indeed the only-means we have of finding out the origins and fundamentals of our universe, and this is… — William B. Bonnor
Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the modern sense, a… — Alan Feduccia
I shall discuss the broad patterns of hominoid evolution, an exercise made enjoyable by the need to integrate diverse kinds of information, and use that… — David Pilbeam

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