Accounts Quote by David Christian

It is difficult to think of an origin without wanting to go back beyond it.

— Terry Eagleton

It was unthinkable not long ago that a biologist or paleontologist would be at the same conference as an astrophysicist. Now we have accumulated…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

My reflection, when I first made myself master of the central idea of the 'Origin', was, 'How extremely stupid not to have thought of…

— Thomas Huxley

To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators.

— Tony Campolo

Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.

— David Christian

Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins.

— Jose Saramago

I find a tremendous receptivity among the public for the subject matter of, 'Where did we come from and how did we get here?'…

— Donald Johanson

At first the, only subconsciously apprehended, approaching confluences of complex events make themselves known intuitively within the intellectual weather. Then comes a gradually awakening…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

...do not the bewitching power of all studies lie in that they continually open up to us new, unsuspected horizons, not yet understood, which…

— Peter Kropotkin

Tracing the beginnings of the interwoven stories of science can be arbitrary, as beginnings are so often lost in the mists of time.

— Elizabeth Blackburn

In all civilizations we've studied, all cultures that we know of across the Earth and across time have invested some kind of attempt to…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept…

— Albert Einstein