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Originality is a return to the origin. -- Antonio Gaudi
Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession." -- Mark Twain
Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession. -- Mark Twain
Every philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism. -- Thomas Huxley
Originality consists of returning to the origin. Thus, originality means returning, through one's resources, to the simplicity of the early solutions. -- Antonio Gaudi
Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is 'The Origin of Species.' -- Kirk Cameron
Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions. -- Godfrey Higgins
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. -- John Maynard Keynes
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. -- Harriet Martineau
My reflection, when I first made myself master of the central idea of the 'Origin', was, 'How extremely stupid not to have thought of that!' -- Thomas Huxley
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. -- Al Capp
I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book [The Origin of Species] than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.[Letter to Charles Darwin 12 Dec 1859] -- Joseph Dalton Hooker
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. -- Asa Gray
Tall oaks grow from little acorns.Testing. This is the text of an item. Testing. Origin. Testing. Quoted. Testing. Source. The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
When most of us hear the phrase, 'survival of the fittest,' we assume it originated with Charles Darwin. It did not. The phrase doesn't exist anywhere in Darwin's first edition of 'Origin of the Species.' -- Joel A. Barker
About weak points [of the Origin] I agree. The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder, but when I think of the fine known gradations, my reason tells me I ought to conquer the cold shudder. -- Charles Darwin
A book that I rate only second in importance in evolution theory to Darwin 's Origin (this as joined with its supplement Of Man), and also rate as undoubtedly one of the greatest books of the twentieth century -- Ronald Fisher
No man beholds his mother's womb Yet who denies it's there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that Endless cord that links us all To the great Origin. If I lose my way. The trailing cord will bring me to the roots. -- Wole Soyinka
Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it. -- Zack Snyder
Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin. -- Antoni Gaudi
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition. -- Cesare Pavese
The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters. -- Damon Lindelof
Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin. -- Ivan Pavlov
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. -- William Wordsworth
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. -- Marcus Garvey
All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small. -- Laozi
It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels. -- Francisco de Goya
The United States gave me opportunities that my country of origin could not: freedom of the press and complete freedom of expression. -- Jorge Ramos
Most gravity has no known origin. Is it some exotic particle? Nobody knows. Is dark energy responsible for expansion of the universe? Nobody knows. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
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
My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music. -- Yoko Ono
'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves. -- Sandra Cisneros
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. -- Charles Darwin
Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today. -- Frederick Soddy
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
Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth, and there is nothing to be afraid of, even if the foundations of the earth be moved. -- Annie Besant
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things. -- Lao Tzu
A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water. -- C. V. Raman
When scientists are asked what they are working on, their response is seldom 'Finding the origin of the universe' or 'Seeking to cure cancer.' Usually, they will claim to be tackling a very specific problem - a small piece of the jigsaw that builds up the big picture. -- Martin Rees
We should get used to the idea that we'll probably never be able to find - and confirm - a good explanation of the ultimate origin of the universe, though I see no reason to believe that we can't press much further on this question than we have managed to date. -- Daniel Dennett
When you think about rock at its origin, and you think of the Beatles and millions of kids screaming as loud as they can and running as fast as they can towards the Beatles, there's no one who is that kind of lightning rod, who commands that kind of power and has that kind of creative magma. -- Jack Black
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. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
When you think of it, really there are four fundamental questions of life. You've asked them, I've asked them, every thinking person asks them. They boil down to this; origin, meaning, morality and destiny. 'How did I come into being? What brings life meaning? How do I know right from wrong? Where am I headed after I die?' -- Ravi Zacharias
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. -- Martin Jacques
Doubt is the origin of wisdom -- Rene Descartes
Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The origin of each story is unique. -- Kate DiCamillo
Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin. -- Jean-Philippe Rameau
Wealth is knowledge and its origin is evolution -- Eric Beinhocker
Current utility and historical origin are different subjects. -- Stephen Jay Gould
The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Most good thinking has its origin in fear. -- Alain de Botton
A man is the origin of his action. -- Aristotle
Dubium sapientiae initium (Doubt is the origin of wisdom). -- Rene Descartes
We are African in origin and American in birth. -- Timothy Thomas Fortune
Customs will often outlive the remembrance of their origin. -- Thomas Paine
The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The origin of the labor movement lies in self-defense ... -- Mary Ritter Beard
The origin of thinking is some perplexity, confusion or doubt. -- John Dewey
Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The origin of innovation and entrepreneurship is a creative mindset -- Michael Harris PhD
Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin. -- Antoni Gaudi
Every true revival . . . has had its earthly origin in prayer. -- R. A. Torrey
War is life war is the origin of all things. -- Adolf Hitler
I am first and foremost an actress of Indian origin. -- Freida Pinto
Each play I write has its own unique origin story. -- Lynn Nottage
Truths physical have an origin as divine as truths religious. -- David Brewster
The witches do not know the origin of their cult. -- Gerald Gardner
Truth is beautiful and divine no matter how humble its origin. -- Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin
The origin of love is the beautiful light of the soul. -- Ryuho Okawa
Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person. -- Sigmund Freud
The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original. -- Rabindranath Tagore
95, 96 percent of all that drives the universe has no known origin. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny. -- Blaise Pascal
Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin. -- Wilhelm Reich
Writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin. -- Roland Barthes
I am equally proud of my Serbian origin and my Croatian fatherland. -- Nikola Tesla
Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath. -- William Wordsworth
As far as humanity is concerned the origin of stupidity is itself. -- William C. Brown
Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history. -- Charles Darwin
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin! -- Baron de Montesquieu
I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath. -- M. F. Husain
There is nothing in science which teaches the origin of anything at all. -- Lord Kelvin
I'm a technologist by origin and by training, but I'm focused on philanthropy. -- Pierre Omidyar
Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe. -- Richard Dawkins
The origin of every sin of the heart is love of this world. -- Habib Umar bin Hafiz
The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science. -- Paul Davies
You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin. -- Stanley Kunitz
The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents. -- Pliny the Elder
Few of us take the pains to study the origin of our cherished convictions. -- James Harvey Robinson
The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately. -- Gaston Bachelard
When a political organization loses contact with its origin, it declines and risks implosion. -- Roberto Esposito
It's what's known as an origin myth. What happened to me? That's no myth. -- Meg Cabot
All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money. -- Robert Collier
The problem is we disagree about the origin. Is this occupied land or not? -- Hassan Nasrallah
Basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport. -- James Naismith
To know the origin of words is to know the cultural history of mankind. -- Ernest Klein
The public, regardless of its social origin, likes, above all, that which is easily accessible. -- Mieczyslaw Jastrun
All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it. -- Thomas de Quincey
Physicians still retain something of their priestly origin; they would gladly do what they forbid. -- Otto von Bismarck
It is necessary to suppress any extremist actions, on all sides, regardless of their origin. -- Vladimir Putin
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
My poetry had the same functional origin and the same formal configuration as teenage acne. -- Umberto Eco
No doubt, the most challenging class of questions in science is the origin of things. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
No biologist has actually seen the origin by evolution of a major group of organisms. -- G. Ledyard Stebbins
History records the names of royal bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. -- Jean-Henri Fabre
Awareness of the inner body is consciousness remembering its origin and returning to the Source. -- Eckhart Tolle
There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel. -- Aristotle
Isn't the origin of conflict ego? If there is no ego there is no becoming. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is difficult to think of an origin without wanting to go back beyond it. -- Terry Eagleton
To practice Aikido fully you must calm the spirit and go back to the origin. -- Morihei Ueshiba
The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth. -- Sidney Altman
The Kinsey Institute says gay men have bigger sex organs. Hence the origin of gay pride. -- Jay Leno
All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit. -- Thomas Aquinas
The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct. -- John Fiske
All religions, all indigenous traditions, all origin stories provide a large map of where you are. -- David Christian
Celestial mechanics is the origin of dynamical systems, linear algebra, topology, variational calculus and symplectic geometry. -- Vladimir Arnold
I never wanted anything to happen to my parents, but a hero needs an origin story. -- Joey Comeau
It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us. -- Oscar Wilde

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