Analogies Quote by Charles Lyell

It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God…

— Stephen Hawking

This fact immediately suggested a singular event - that at some time in the distant past the universe began expanding from an extremely small…

— Michael Behe

“No mortal thing has a beginning, nor does it end in death and obliteration; there is only a mixing and then separating of what…

— Empedocles

If the universe had a beginning, its beginning, by the very condition of the cases, was supernatural; the laws of Nature cannot account for…

— John Stuart Mill

There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning ... There is something. There is nothing.

— Zhuangzi

There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of thisweb of God, but always circular power returning into…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's just the end of some things. And the beginning of others.

— Lisa McMann

Philosophically, the notion of a beginning of the present order of Nature is repugnant to me ... I should like to find a genuine loophole.

— Arthur Eddington

All things end as they start, just like life has a start so it does have an end. The end is the start, and…

— Jeremy Limn

“[E]volution is not a cause, but the description of a process … Can we in any way explain the origin of species? Are we…

— Anonymous

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we…

— T. S. Eliot