Origin of life Quote by David Hume Download Open image ““[A] planet, wholly inhabited by spiders, (which is very possible)”” — David Hume ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Origin of life Philosophy Planets Religion Skepticism Spiders
“And what if there are only spiders there, or something of that sort” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Spider was circumscribed by spider ideas; its universe was spider universe. All outside was irrational, extraneous, at best raw material for spider. As I… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“Twenty-six thousand feet up the cols of Everest, a long way beyond the staying power of plants, pale spiders have been found, who subsist… — James Agee Copy Share Image
“The spider's web: She finds an innocuous corner in which to spin her web. The longer the web takes, the more fabulous its construction.… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
If it weren't for men, this planet would be overrun with giant spiders. — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
“At Highgarden we have many spiders amongst the flowers. So long as they keep to themselves we let them spin their little webs, but… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“It is impossible for us to think of any thing, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal senses.” — David Hume Copy Share Image
All morality depends upon our sentiments; and when any action or quality of the mind pleases us after a certain manner we say it… — David Hume Copy Share Image
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth… — David Hume Copy Share Image
...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am sensible, that,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We may conclude, therefore, that, in order to establish laws for the regulation of property, we must be acquainted with the nature and situation… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but no just… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Manufacturers...gradually shift their places, leaving those countries and provinces which they have already enriched, and flying to others, whether they are allured by the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be amply insisted… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The most perfect happiness, surely, must arise from the contemplation of the most perfect object.” — David Hume Copy Share Image
“If it be said that it is the mind that produces Karma (I ask), what is the mind? If you mean the heart, the… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
All of us who study the origin of life find that the more we look into it, the more we feel it is too… — Harold Urey Copy Share Image
One of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Yet, unlike the causal specificity that obtains for microevolutionary processes, origin-of-life researchers have yet to specify the chemical pathways that supposedly originated life. For… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
Evolution does not attempt to explain the origin of life. It is simply a history of the process of life. With the secret cause… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science. — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
“The existence of consciousness is both one of the most familiar and one of the most astounding things about the world. No conception of… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
A fountain is the memory of nature, this marvelous sound of a little river in the mountains translated to the city. For me, a… — Jaume Plensa Copy Share Image
In the southern countries and in the regions and continents like Africa, which is where the origin of life on earth began, there is… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
There is no agreement on the extent to which metabolism could develop independently of a genetic material. In my opinion, there is no basis… — Leslie Orgel Copy Share Image
As we survey all the evidence, the thought insistently arises that some supernatural agency-or, rather, Agency-must be involved. Is it possible that suddenly, without… — George Greenstein Copy Share Image
