Origin Quotes
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All of us who study the origin of life find that the more we look into it, the more we feel it is too complex to have evolved anywhere. We all believe as an article of faith that life evolved from dead matter on this planet. It is just that life's complexity is so great, it is hard for us to imagine that it did.
Harold Urey -
Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems.
Walt Whitman
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Culture is the celebration of diversity. Let us therefore not deny our origin; but instead celebrate ours as a cultural mosaic not a tower of Babel , but a power of Babel
Ali Mazrui -
The freshwater fish fauna of Florida is one of the most interesting in the United States. It is a fauna developed in a region of recent geologic origin, low topographic relief, poor drainage, and unusual geographic configuration, and consequently exhibits certain very peculiar features. Some of the characteristic continental groups apparently have not had time to establish themselves in the peninsula since its elevation above the sea, while others have doubtless failed to find suitable conditions in its low and swamp-bordered water courses.
Archie Carr -
I never enquire into the origin of things, all Origin is a fallacy (in this I follow Nietzsche: origin is a very contested Cartesian illusion of reliability). Everything reaches us filtered through culture.
Agustin Fernandez Mallo -
The witches do not know the origin of their cult.
Gerald Gardner -
Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin.
Wilhelm Reich -
…Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end.
Juan Ramon Jimenez
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The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin.
George Jellinek -
New York interposed itself, once and for all, between me and all other places of origin.
Joseph O'Neill -
Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.
Ivan Pavlov -
To know the origin of words is to know the cultural history of mankind.
Ernest Klein -
The problem is we disagree about the origin. Is this occupied land or not?
Hassan Nasrallah -
The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth.
Sidney Altman