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Origins are of the greatest importance. We are almost reconciled to having a cold when we remember where we caught it. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Proposition VIII. When two Undulations, from different Origins, coincide either perfectly or very nearly in Direction, their joint effect is a Combination of the Motions belonging to each. -- Thomas Young
Evolution has just been dealt its death blow. After reading Origins of Life with my background in chemistry and physics, it is clear that biological evolution could not have occurred. -- Richard Smalley
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease. -- Daniel Barenboim
I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film. -- Martin Scorsese
From its humble origins in college dorm rooms, social media has quietly crept into the boardroom. -- Ryan Holmes
Our animal origins are constantly lurking behind, even if they are filtered through complicated social evolution. -- Richard Dawkins
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. -- Dante Alighieri
The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself. -- Andre Bazin
My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own. -- Karl Jaspers
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement. -- Michael Korda
I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am. -- Ryan Giggs
Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive. -- Arthur Erickson
Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president. -- Timothy Noah
In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection. -- Carol Gilligan
I'll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I'm from Quebec, and every time I go to a country, I say that. It's my roots, my origins, and it's the most important thing to me. -- Celine Dion
The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago. -- E. O. Wilson
In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief. -- Georg Simmel
Cities are the origins of global warming, impact on the environment, health, pollution, disease, finance, economies, energy are all problems that are confronted by having cities. That's where they - all these problems come from. -- Geoffrey West
I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek, who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades, who also happens to be Muslim. -- Reza Aslan
When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion. -- Walter Kaufmann
The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself. -- Pat Conroy
We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we would be like plants set in shallow soil. Our souls must take root - almost literally. -- Joyce Carol Oates
For a slim, sexy body, it's important to eat protein every day - preferably at every meal. Be sure to ask about the origins of your meat, poultry and seafood. If you can't afford organic, free-range meats, opt for natural poultry, pork, and beef that's raised without antibiotics or hormones. -- Suzanne Somers
It was unthinkable not long ago that a biologist or paleontologist would be at the same conference as an astrophysicist. Now we have accumulated so much data in each of these branches of science as it relates to origins that we have learned that no one discipline can answer questions of origins alone. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim. -- Queen Elizabeth II
God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there. -- Pat Robertson
If we do find ET, we will at least have something in common with them. They may live on planet Zog and have seven tentacles, but they will be made of the same kinds of atoms as us. If they have eyes, they will gaze out on the same cosmos as we do. They will, like us, trace their origins back to a 'Big Bang' 13.8 billion years ago. -- Martin Rees
Originality is going back to origins. -- Antonio Gaudi
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The origins of graph theory are humble, even frivolous. -- Norman L. Biggs
Light may be shed on man and his origins. -- Charles Darwin
No one knows the origins of their metal coat hangers. -- Peter Kay
Each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. -- Cormac McCarthy
The origins of Judeo-Christianity are to be found in Egypt. -- Michael Tsarion
Within your physical atoms the origins of all consciousness still sings. -- Jane Roberts
It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins. -- Clarence Darrow
Don't re-open old wounds in order to examine their origins. Leave them healed. -- Richard Bandler
The special theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic field. -- Albert Einstein
I'm so biased to this issue of the origins of life and the limits of life. -- Ellen Stofan
I think the origins of music have probably to do with magic and transcendence as well. -- Justin Adams
The only accounting we had of the origins and the structure of nature was Biblical Genesis. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle. -- Shulamith Firestone
Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth. -- David Christian
I'm not sure the Russians would be happy that their iconic wooly mammoth has North American origins. -- Hendrik Poinar
If you're looking for the origins of film culture in America, look no further than Amos Vogel. -- Martin Scorsese
In America, our origins matter less than our destination, and that is what democracy is all about. -- Ronald Reagan
Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown. -- Francis Parker Yockey
Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown -- Francis Parker Yockey
Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions. -- Antonio Gaudi
Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins. -- James S. Coleman
Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter. -- Freya Stark
Leadership is inherent in our nature and is fundamental to our origins, our human makeup -and our destiny. -- Myles Munroe
After realising my natural affinity towards surrealism several years ago I decided to study it's origins and definitions. -- Trevor Dunn
We can never know the origins of the universe. The deepest secrets are the ones that keep themselves. -- John D. Barrow
Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers. -- Franz Grillparzer
It is crucial for us to understand the origins of our low self-esteem before we can transcend it. -- Kevin Solomons
To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators. -- Tony Campolo
Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words. -- Jean Philippe Rameau
Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words. -- Jean Philippe Rameau
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I believe that mental health services should be based on the premise that the origins of distress are largely social. -- Peter Kinderman
Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words. -- Alfred Korzybski
The idea that there is only one way to be reconciled with God has its origins in the Old Testament. -- Robert Jeffress
When we look out into space, we are looking into our own origins, because we are truly children of the stars. -- Brian Cox
One of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
When you look at the origins and evolution of life on Earth, it's been severely affected by asteroid impacts through history. -- Rusty Schweickart
I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features. -- Freida Pinto
Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings. -- Neil Postman
Where [Albert Camus] is in exile isn't especially in Paris or elsewhere, but from the intellectual world, because of his origins. -- Catherine Camus
The physicist's problem is the problem of ultimate origins and ultimate natural laws. The biologist's problem is the problem of complexity. -- Richard Dawkins
Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members. -- Mary Catherine Bateson
Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins. -- Jose Saramago
The so-called geologic ages are essentially synonymous with the evolutionary theory of origins. The latter is the anti-God conspiracy of Satan himself. -- Henry M. Morris
Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins. -- Thomas McGuane
Ive always really been into science, and in the last five years Ive gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe. -- Adam Pascal
I've always really been into science, and in the last five years I've gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe. -- Adam Pascal
The punishment of shaving a woman's head had biblical origins. In Europe, the practice dated back to the Dark Ages with the Visigoths. -- Antony Beevor
In its Greek origins, historia meant inquiry, and from Thucydides onwards, the past has been studied to understand its connections with the present. -- Simon Schama
I had to discover very quickly that class origins cannot be erased, regardless of whether we climb up or down the sociocultural ladder. -- Elena Ferrante
It's really amazing that two people from such different backgrounds and geographical origins ever got together. That was perhaps part of the attraction. -- Desi Arnaz
By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time. -- Erin McKean
Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins. -- Jodi Picoult
The discovery informs about the origins and early evolution of arthropods, the most ubiquitous, species-rich, morphologically diverse and successful animal group on Earth. -- Benjamin Van Roy
The lessons learned as we try to build ever more sophisticated nanomachines will almost certainly inform our understanding of the origins of life. -- Paul McEuen
All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists . -- John Maynard Keynes
Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging. -- Sonia Sotomayor
May all of you as Americans never forget your heroic origins, never fail to seek Divine guidance, and never lose your natural God-given optimism. -- Ronald Reagan
Calamities that are not the result of purely natural phenomena usually have their origins, distant and obscure though they may be, in common human failings. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins. -- Tom Robbins
Creation myths are not about the origins of the world at all, but about the origins of patriarchy which has claimed itself as the world -- Jane Caputi
Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my own true origins. -- Assia Djebar
Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been. -- Edgar Allan Poe
It's important to understand the origins of ISIS were in the chaos of Iraq and Libya, and the origins of Al Qaeda were in Afghanistan. -- Jill Stein
When you trace a particle back to its origins, you find that it's nothing but pure energy. All of us come from this energy field. -- Wayne Dyer
Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens. -- Albert Einstein
Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the modern sense, a bird. -- Alan Feduccia
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.... -- Jose Emilio Pacheco
Poetry speaks most effectively and inclusively (whether in free or formal verse) when it recognizes its connection - without apology - to its musical and ritualistic origins. -- Dana Gioia
Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism. -- Matthew Fox
You cannot deny your origins: I love Kirchner more than Matisse, although Matisse was a greater artist. That isn't to do with nationality. It's a stronger feeling. -- Georg Baselitz
The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice. -- Blaise Pascal
The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the secret and keep it. -- Mary Ruefle
The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes. -- W. Somerset Maugham
The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes. -- W. Somerset Maugham
In other words, RBS had its origins in a failed speculation, a bail-out, and a financial crash so big it helped destroy Scotland's status as a separate nation. -- John Lanchester
The spiritual sense of our place in nature... can be traced to the origins of human civilization... The last vestige of organized goddess worship was eliminated by Christianity. -- Al Gore
The psychological origins of love are in attachment to parents and sexual partners. We do not attach to ourselves; we do not seek security and fulfillment in ourselves. -- Jonathan Haidt
Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in their folk culture is transcendental. -- F. Sionil Jose
There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War. -- Douglas Hurd
Both in their origins and effects, boredom and stuffy air resemble each other. They are usually generated whenever a large number of people gather together in a closed room. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
My name, my origins, my background and my experiences are what leveraged my success. The angle of the immigrant, through which I examined the reality in France, distinguished me. -- Gad Elmaleh
To teach means scarcely anything more than to show how things differ from one another in their different purposes, forms, and origins. ... Therefore, he who differentiates well teaches well. -- John Amos
Precisely because intelligent design does not turn the study of biological origins into a Bible-science controversy, intelligent design is a position around which Christians of all stripes can unite. -- William A. Dembski
What are the origins of dressage? Did just, one day, some young horse say to his dad, 'Dad, I don't want to charge into battle...I just wanna dance'? -- Stephen Colbert
When you stop to examine the way in which our words are formed and uttered, our sentences are hard-put to it to survive the disaster of their slobbery origins. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it. -- Allen Tate

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