Best Spontaneous Quotes

399 Spontaneous quotes by 315 unique authors

There are only two possible explanations as to how life arose: Spontaneous generation arising to evolution or a supernatural creative act of God.... There is… — George Wald
Most modern biologists, having reviewed with satisfaction the downfall of the spontaneous generation hypothesis, yet unwilling to accept the alternative belief in special creation, are… — George Wald
One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. Yet here we… — George Wald
The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions of years during… — Ilya Prigogine
We are apt to consider that invention is the result of spontaneous action of some heavenborn genius, whose advent we must patiently wait for, but… — John Ambrose Fleming
Scientific modes of thought cannot be developed and become generally accepted unless people renounce their primary, unreflecting, and spontaneous attempt to understand all their experience… — Norbert Elias
You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Humans are powerful spiritual beings meant to create good on earth. This good isn't usually accomplished in bold actions, but in singular acts of kindness… — Dannion Brinkley
A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Contrary to the popular notion that only creationism relies on the supernatural, evolutionism must as well, since the probabilities of random formation of life are… — Unknown Author
There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden... The pupil is… — G. Stanley Hall
Human life as a whole is not inundated by technique. It has room for activities that are not rationally or systematically ordered. But the collision… — Jacques Ellul
Above all we need, particularly as children, the reassuring presence of a visible community, an intimate group that enfolds us with understanding and love, and… — Lewis Mumford
After finishing the first draft, I work for as long as it takes (for two or three weeks, most often) to rework that first draft… — Kent Haruf
Socialism is not spontaneous. It does not arise of itself. It has abiding principles according to which the major means of production and distribution ought… — Kwame Nkrumah
Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
A lot of it's experimental, spontaneous. It's about knocking about in the studio and bumping into things. — Richard Price
That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this… — Lydia M. Child
The central problem of management is how spontaneous interaction of people within a firm, each possessing only bits of knowledge, can bring about the competitive… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Most, probably, of our decisions to do something positive, the full consequences of which will be drawn out over many days to come, can only… — John Maynard Keynes
Fulfilling the four needs [spiritual, mental, physical, social] in an integrated way is like combining elements in chemistry. When we reach a "critical mass" of… — Stephen Covey
What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes… — John Berger
Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. 'I am' is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry.… — Ramana Maharshi
A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning. — Richard M. Nixon
Never say never. The things that you dont plan are the best. Im a very spontaneous person. — Lindsay Lohan

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