![[Attributing the origin of life to spontaneous generation.] However improbable we regard this event, it will almost certainly happen at least once.... The time... is of the order of two billion years.... Given so much time, the "impossible" becomes possible, the possible probable, and the probable virtually certain. One only has to wait: time itself performs the miracles.](/assets/img/quote-photos/attributing-the-origin-of-life-to-spontaneous-generation-however-improbable-we.jpg)
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science ideas may
I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending themselves by elegance or generality. Carl Friedrich Gauss
science hands people
It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics, but is true of every exclusive occupation. Likewise a mere linguist, a mere jurist, a mere soldier, a mere merchant, and so forth. One could add such idle chatter that when a certain exclusive occupation is often connected with certain specific shortcomings, it is on the other hand always free of certain other shortcomings.
science three newton
There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.
science dwarves everyday
We're just learning that a lot of planets are small planets, and we didn't know that before, fact is, in planetary science, objects such as Pluto and the other dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt are considered planets and called planets in everyday discourse in scientific meetings. Alan Stern
science ideas perception
These disturbing phenomena [Extra Sensory Perception] seem to deny all our scientific ideas. How we should like to discredit them! Unfortunately the statistical evidence, at least for telepathy, is overwhelming. Alan Turing
science religion boundaries
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
science light candle
Why don't you light that candle ? Alan Shepard
science uniforms taste
In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied. Charles Caleb Colton
science disorder cures
No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.
origin-of-life generations firsts
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
origin-of-life two giving
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. Carl Zimmer
origin-of-life goal creative
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. Albert Einstein
origin-of-life might boeing
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
origin-of-life support earth
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.
origin-of-life lessons-to-be-learned understanding
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
origin-of-life mind evolution
Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved. Francis Crick
origin-of-life growth important
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. George Wald
origin-of-life speak offers
So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in. Sean Penn
order perfect horror
Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror. Carlos Fuentes
order awareness well-being
Well being is a condition one has to groom, a condition one has to become aquainted with in order to seek it Carlos Castaneda
order use world
Let's say that when every one of us is born we bring with us a little ring of power. That little ring is almost immediately put to use. So every one of us is already hooked from birth and our rings of power are joined to everyone else's. In other words, our rings of power are hooked to the doing of the world in order to make the world.
order wind needs
... everything in the world is a force, a pull or a push. In order for us to be pushed or pulled we need to be like a sail, like a kite in the wind. But if we have a hole in the middle of our luminosity, the force goes through it and never acts upon us.
order darkness exhausted
When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.
order trying needs
Above all, in order to gain respect, you need to be true to yourself. There is no point in trying to be brutal if it's not in your nature; there is no point in trying to be suave and sophisticated if it doesn't come naturally. Alan Sugar
order secret masonic
Our Masonic friends have it down very fine. I do not know where they got it so well. I have often wondered where they found out so many of the secrets of our High and Accepted Order of Masonry. Charles Taze Russell
order giving cabinets
The cabinet has no propositions to make, but orders to give. Charles de Gaulle
order generosity brave
Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.