If your worldview starts with a problematic origin story, everything else is going to be infected. William Dembski More William Dembski Quotes 6
Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience. Ernst Mach Austrian Physicist More Ernst Mach Quotes 1
I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may have taken his origin. Alexander Mackenzie Canadian Statesman More Alexander Mackenzie Quotes 0
The problem is we disagree about the origin. Is this occupied land or not? Hassan Nasrallah Lebanese Revolutionary More Hassan Nasrallah Quotes 0
Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end. John Newton American Soldier More John Newton Quotes 0
What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them? Paracelsus Swiss Scientist More Paracelsus Quotes 0
Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin. Jean Philippe Rameau French Composer More Jean Philippe Rameau Quotes 0
To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much. George Saintsbury English Writer More George Saintsbury Quotes 0
Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it. Giorgio Vasari Italian Artist More Giorgio Vasari Quotes 0
As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways. Alfred Russel Wallace British Scientist More Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes 0
I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part of human civilization of Western origin, to which I have dedicated and I shall continue to dedicate my work. Chen Ning Yang American Physicist More Chen Ning Yang Quotes 0
My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college. Philip Zimbardo American Psychologist More Philip Zimbardo Quotes 0
I came from such a simple origin, without any great privilege, and I would say I also wanted to make a mark. It wasn't until I was about 15 that I appeared in a race. Roger Bannister British Athlete More Roger Bannister Quotes 0
The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth. Sidney Altman Canadian Scientist More Sidney Altman Quotes 0
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil. Georges Bataille French Writer More Georges Bataille Quotes 0
Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor. Avi Arad Israeli Businessman More Avi Arad Quotes 0
It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for twenty years. Jean M. Auel American Writer More Jean M. Auel Quotes 0
What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression. Roy Ayers English Musician More Roy Ayers Quotes 0
Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh. Ambrose Bierce American Journalist More Ambrose Bierce Quotes 0
Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed. Adam Clarke British Theologian More Adam Clarke Quotes 0
I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students. Felix Bloch Swiss Scientist More Felix Bloch Quotes 0
All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money. Robert Collier American Publisher More Robert Collier Quotes 0
Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines, and my acquaintance with so many of the officers, the origin of which I have already mentioned, enabled me to gain much important information as to the position and designs of the enemy. Belle Boyd American Celebrity More Belle Boyd Quotes 0
A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit. Lakhdar Brahimi Public Servant More Lakhdar Brahimi Quotes 0