Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Peacocke

We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.

Carl Zimmer

At long last, we may be returning to the original two-sided sense of the word virus, which originally signified either a life-giving substance or a deadly venom. Viruses are indeed exquisitely deadly, but they have provided the world with some of its most important innovations. Creation and destruction join together once more.

Albert Einstein

I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.

Fred Hoyle

The chance that higher life forms might have emerged through evolutionary processes is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the material therein.

Fred Hoyle

In short there is not a shred of objective evidence to support the hypothesis that life began in an organic soup here on the Earth.

Paul McEuen

The lessons learned as we try to build ever more sophisticated nanomachines will almost certainly inform our understanding of the origins of life.

Francis Crick

Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.

George Wald

The important point is that since the origin of life belongs in the category of at-least-once phenomena, time is on its side. However improbable we regard this event, or any of the steps which it involves, given enough time it will almost certainly happen at least once. And for life as we know it, with its capacity for growth and reproduction, once may be enough.

Sean Penn

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.

Susan B. Anthony

Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.

Diane Watson

Social Security is a program that should be strengthened and preserved for future generations.

Dave Chappelle

My generation is under-entertained.

David Guterson

I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.

Cesare Pavese

The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.

Chita Rivera

You know I've got a generator that's still popping.

Charles Baudelaire

The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.

Edward Norton

My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s.

Bruno Bettelheim

What cannot be talked about cannot be put to rest. And if it is not, the wounds will fester from generation to generation.

Carol Kane

And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.

Carol P. Christ

At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.

Carlos Ghosn

We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition.

C. S. Lewis

Goodness is, so to speak, itself; badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.

Agnes Smedley

For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.

Alan Thicke

If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.

Alan Shearer

First is first. That's the way I was brought up. Second or third are nowhere.

Alan King

Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore's program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.

Alan Kay

The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.