Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Francis Crick

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

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.

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.

Paul Davies

Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.

Scott Turow

Just because it's a mystery, it doesn't have to be mindless.

Dave Taylor

He is probably the premiere mystery writer today. He's our generation's Dashiell Hammett.

Beth Schwier

I would say mystery is probably the favorite.

Nancy Karl

I think the mystery is the most interesting and tantalizing part about it,

Cam Gigandet

Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.

Deepak Chopra

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

Jane Leavy

The only mystery is why we find it surprising that someone opted out, ... It makes him different.

Walt Whitman

I and this mystery, here we stand.

Bill Shankly

My life is my work. My work is my life

Carrie Brownstein

I really don't know what to do when my life is not chaotic.

Carrie Fisher

My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer.

Bethenny Frankel

Truthfully, my life is always lunacy.

Arsene Wenger

Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly.

Charles Kingsley

Life is too short for mean anxieties.

Charles Colson

Life is a mess. And theology must be lived out in the midst of that mess.

Chris Crutcher

...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it.

Charles Spurgeon

The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.