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Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history. -- Charles Darwin
Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man. -- George Gaylord Simpson
In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history. -- Charles Darwin
The evolution of life, and the evolutionary origin of mankind, are scientifically established as firmly and completely as any historical event not witnessed by human observers. Any concession to anti-evolutionists, suggesting that there are scientific reasons to doubt the facticity of evolution, would be propagating a plain untruth. -- Theodosius Dobzhansky
The evolution of life, and the evolutionary origin of mankind, are scientifically established as firmly and completely as any historical event not witnessed by human observers. Any concession to anti-evolutionists, suggesting that there are scientific reasons to doubt the facticity of evolution, would be propagating a plain untruth. -- Theodosius Dobzhansky
Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become. -- Jean Rostand
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. -- Carl Jung
Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play. -- Eric Hoffer
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
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
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
The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world. -- Adam Sedgwick
I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way. -- Mortimer Adler
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
The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations. -- Richard Owen
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
There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say. -- Martin Buber
So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world. -- Jules Verne
If you read the whole Vertigo 'Animal Man' series of 89 issues or whatever, each writer has a completely different take on his origin. If you try to put them all together, they contradict one another. I had to pick and choose to make up a new origin that makes sense to new readers. -- Jeff Lemire
Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure. -- Paul de Man
A man is the origin of his action. -- Aristotle
Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become -- Jean Rostand
The origin of civilization is man's determination to do nothing for himself which he can get done for him. -- H. C. Bailey
From its origin to the present hour, in all its vicissitudes, Masonry has been the steady unwearing friend of man. -- Theodore Roosevelt
The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions. -- Henri Bergson
There is nothing great in the world that does not owe its origin to the creative ability of an individual man. -- Adolf Hitler
Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility. -- Clarence Darrow
Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded. -- Ramana Maharshi
Where is the source of all money-sickness, and the origin of all sex-perversion?.... It lies in the heart of man, and not in the conditions. -- D. H. Lawrence
The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself. -- Seneca the Younger
Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice -- Bertrand Russell
One of my friends, reading the title of these lectures [The Whence and Whither of Man] said: "Of man's origin you know nothing, of his future you know less." -- John M. Tyler
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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