Origin Quotes

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There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.

In short there is not a shred of objective evidence to support the hypothesis that life began in an organic soup here on the Earth.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.

Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.

Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved

I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.

It is easier to believe that there was nothing before there was something than that there was something before there was nothing.

Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species.

Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms.

... not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity.

We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.

String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.

All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first molecule.

Many investigators feel uneasy stating in public that the origin of life is a mystery, even though behind closed doors they admit they are baffled.

The novel since its origins has been the privatization of history... the history of private life ... and in that sense every novel is an historical novel.

We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.

The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth.

Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species.

Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.

Multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books we shall not exist.

The lessons learned as we try to build ever more sophisticated nanomachines will almost certainly inform our understanding of the origins of life.

To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.

It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter.

The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce.

One of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself.

Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support.

We are assumed to be rather hopeless - swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life.

His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened the latter speculation at all.

Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY POOR!!. The fact is, he is very much annoyed by it.

Every philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism.

Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is The Origin of Species.

Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession.

Never forget your roots, it's the foundation that builds your existence and the secret to your future.

We must act now to prevent further spread of EBOLA VIRUS. If we do not act collectively, EBOLA VIRUS will wipe all whole populations and generations into their grave. The call to action is now.

A body can't live without a heart. And I can't live without you.

I think of the five generations it will take before [Mr. Perfect]'s born, and I want to scream. I want someone now. I want someone who will look into my eyes and understand everything behind them.

No one gave us life, we're the products of an explosion.

The outgroup is rocks.

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.

Time is the material from which life is made

Poverty is the origin of invention

At the end of time I want my art to stand up and my soul to bow down.

All Authors come from the unified countrynent known as Australia. Authors live in the future where love is external.

Curiosity is the origin of knowledge. Experience is the origin of wisdom.

If where you are is worthwhile then where you are from doesn't matter.

You are the point of origin for everything in your world: you set the standard for yourself.

Me and Katy look adorkable in extraterrestrialhighway shirts. You would just look stupid. You can thank me later.