Top 1200 Origin Of Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Silicon Valley loves a good origin story.

Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person.

Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the case. A people is shaped and driven forward by an entirely different kind of force, one which commands and coerces them and the origin of which is obscure and inexplicable despite the reality of its presence.

Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

I find that God by any name can be reduced to this sense of the eternal Presence. It defines being, and I see it as a sphere of intense light that marks the point of my origin. It is the permanent part of me, of which I am very aware, and the point to which I will return at the conclusion of this life.

Three classes inhabited the city (Alexandria in Egypt): first the Aegyptian or native stock of people, who were quick-tempered and not inclined to civil life; and secondly the mercenary class, who were severe and numerous and intractable...; and, third, the tribe of the Alexandrians, who also were not distinctly inclined to civil life, and for the same reasons, but still they were better than those others, for even though they were a mixed people, still they were Greeks by origin and mindful of the customs common to the Greeks.

Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; no fire, no heroism, no intensity of though and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave.

The origin of every sin of the heart is love of this world.

Customs will often outlive the remembrance of their origin.

As far as humanity is concerned the origin of stupidity is itself.

Stuart Hall was an utterly unique figure. Although he arrived at the age of 19 from Jamaica and spent the rest of his life here, he never felt at home in Britain. This juxtaposition was a crucial source of his strength and originality. Because of his colour and origin, he saw the country differently - not as a native, but as an outsider.

The origin of thinking is some perplexity, confusion or doubt.

The language of art is celestial in origin and can only be understood by the chosen.

Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.

The witches do not know the origin of their cult.

The predominant theory of the origin of the universe is the Big Bang.

There is nothing in science which teaches the origin of anything at all.

The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass.

The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.

The battle over the validity of evolution has been publicly posed as a scientific one. However, you will find little sign of it in scientific journals, where such quarrels as exist are over details, not the basic concept... Evolution has proved so useful as a paradigm for the origin and structure of life that it constitutes the foundation of the sciences of biology and medicine.

95, 96 percent of all that drives the universe has no known origin.

"God is love". His is not a sentimental, emotional kind of love but the love of the Father who is the origin of all life, the love of the Son who dies on the Cross and is raised, the love of the Spirit who renews human beings and the world. Thinking that God is love does us so much good, because it teaches us to love, to give ourselves to others as Jesus gave himself to us and walks with us. Jesus walks beside us on the road through life.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

If I as a geologist were called upon to explain briefly our modern ideas of the origin of the earth and the development of life on it to a simple, pas- toral people, such as the tribes to whom the Book of Genesis was addressed, I could hardly do better than follow rather closely much of the language of the first chapter of Genesis.

What is the origin of God?

You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.

Wealth is knowledge and its origin is evolution

The origin of each story is unique.

Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

You can't confuse safety with religion or national origin.

We forget the origin of a parvenu if he remembers it; we remember it if he forgets it.

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

The origin of love is the beautiful light of the soul.

Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.

I am first and foremost an actress of Indian origin.

The origin of the labor movement lies in self-defense.

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.

Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.

The origin of each of us stems from codes of genetic inheritance.

Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!

I am equally proud of my Serbian origin and my Croatian fatherland.

Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.

Darwin's theory of evolution is a framework by which we understand the diversity of life on Earth. But there is no equation sitting there in Darwin's 'Origin of Species' that you apply and say, 'What is this species going to look like in 100 years or 1,000 years?' Biology isn't there yet with that kind of predictive precision.

Originality is a return to the origin.

Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.

All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.

I often reflect on what an extraordinary time (pun intended) it is to be alive here in the beginning of the twenty-first century. It took life billions of years to get to this point. It took humans thousands of years to piece together a meaningful understanding of our cosmos, our planet and ourselves. Think how fortunate we are to know this much. But think also of all that's yet to be discovered. Here's hoping the deep answers to the deep questions-from the nature of consciousness to the origin of life-will be found in not too much more time.

We are African in origin and American in birth.

The origin of galaxies is one of the fundamental questions of astronomy, and that's what I've been studying.

Current utility and historical origin are different subjects.

I do not remember anything which Confucius has said directly respecting man's "origin, purpose, and destiny." He was more practical than that. He is full of wisdom applied to human relations,--to the private life,--the family,--government, etc. It is remarkable that, according to his own account, the sum and substance of his teaching is, as you know, to do as you would be done by.

Most good thinking has its origin in fear.

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

It's one of the big mysteries about Venus: How did it get so different from Earth when it seems likely to have started so similarly? The question becomes richer when you consider astrobiology, the possibility that Venus and Earth were very similar during the time of the origin of life on Earth.

A man is the origin of his action.

All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it.

I'm a technologist by origin and by training, but I'm focused on philanthropy.

The problem is we disagree about the origin. Is this occupied land or not?