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The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science. -- Paul Davies
The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth. -- Sidney Altman
It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter. -- Charles Darwin
Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support. -- Paul Davies
Many investigators feel uneasy stating in public that the origin of life is a mystery, even though behind closed doors they admit they are baffled. -- Paul Davies
To inquire into the origin of life is like seeking the origin of electrical machinery or the origin of music. Every increase in complexity of arrangement, of form, of substance, leads to new and often incalculable properties. -- Gilbert Newton Lewis
You don't like to be lied to, by your friends or in your business dealings. So why would you want to be lied to when it comes to the origin of life or the fate of the planet? -- Steven Pinker
A fountain is the memory of nature, this marvelous sound of a little river in the mountains translated to the city. For me, a fountain doesn't mean a big jet of water. It means humidity, the origin of life. -- Jaume Plensa
Considering the way the prebiotic soup is referred to in so many discussions of the origin of life as an already established reality, it comes as something of a shock to realize that there is absolutely no positive evidence for its existence. -- Michael Denton
Why is it that skeptics are always being accused of arrogance? For the record, we're the guys who DON'T claim to have absolute knowledge about the origin of the universe, the origin of life, what happens when we die, what will happen in the future, etc. -- Guy P. Harrison
It is easy to forget, not that we ever should, that everything in this world is an accident, including the origin of life itself, plus the accumulation of riches. We should show more respect for nature, not less. An accident isn't necessarily ever over."Scratching The Head -- Diane Williams
Give us detailed, testable, mechanistic accounts for the origin of life, the origin of the genetic code, the origin of ubiquitous bio macromolecules and assemblages like the ribosome, and the origin of molecular machines like the bacterial flagellum, and intelligent design will die a quick and painless death. -- William A. Dembski
Give us detailed, testable, mechanistic accounts for the origin of life, the origin of the genetic code, the origin of ubiquitous bio macromolecules and assemblages like the ribosome, and the origin of molecular machines like the bacterial flagellum, and intelligent design will die a quick and painless death." -- William A. Dembski
I'm so biased to this issue of the origins of life and the limits of life. -- Ellen Stofan
Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there. -- Ahmed Ben Bella
When you look at the origins and evolution of life on Earth, it's been severely affected by asteroid impacts through history. -- Rusty Schweickart
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
We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it. -- Arthur Peacocke
Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers. -- Roger Ebert
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice. -- Clarence Darrow
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
I think that water is immediately interesting. It's just, as an element, it is full of life. It is associated with origin; it is bright - it reflects you. -- Seamus Heaney
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
By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life. -- Edvard Munch
Most research into life's murky origin has been carried out by chemists. They've tried a variety of approaches in their attempts to recreate the first steps on the road to life, but little progress has been made. Perhaps that is no surprise, given life's stupendous complexity. -- Paul Davies
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
From a personal perspective, I am disappointed that we have yet to really achieve a full understanding of the origins of life on Earth. What was the spark that, billions of years ago, kickstarted the process of evolution that has brought us life as we know it today? I hope that we will get some answers to that in my lifetime. -- Martin Rees
War is life war is the origin of all things. -- Adolf Hitler
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
"¦Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end. -- Juan Ramon Jimenez
Thou Art Humanity: all created by one origin, Adam and Eve___ noble fabrics of this glorious life and its wondrous weave. -- Jamil Hussain
Whoso does not see that genuine life is a battle and a march has poorly read his origin and his destiny. -- Lydia M. Child
Language is of divine origin.. Some may know this but do not realize its implications in their daily family life. Love at home starts with loving language. -- Charles A. Didier
Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably that is the origin of my vocation. -- Mario Vargas Llosa
Every form of life is in its origin not natural, but divine and human; for it must spring from love, just as there can be no reason without spirit. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
When I touched her body,I believed she was God.In the curves of her formI found the birth of Man,the creation of the world,and the origin of all life. -- Roman Payne

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