Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roy Acuff

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.

Wernher von Braun

I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence of the universe as it is to comprehend a theologian who would deny the advances of science.

Samuel Beckett

All has not been said and never will be.

William Arthur Ward

Once trust is tarnished, it is hard to restore it to its original glow.

Ezra Pound

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.

Francis Crick

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

Sonakshi Sinha

I've done two remakes, 'Rowdy Rathore' and 'Son of Sardaar,' and I see nothing wrong with it. The originals were in a language that not everyone understands, so when you're making it in another language, you can reach a much wider audience. That's how I look at it.

Erin Moran

I have thought about Happy Days made into a movie. As far as the original cast not being a part of it, wow, I don't know who could be who!I just don't see it going in that direction. I can see the original cast doing the movie very easily though.

It was originally more like a concert. We've turned it into a theatrical production.

It may have come from outside purchases, ... It may have originated in the plant, but we don't think so.

Jerry Only

It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction.

Dale Dauten

It's time to reappreciate the original software: paper.

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.

Gene Fowler

If they haven't heard it before it's original.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

A poor original is better than a good imitation.

Jorge Luis Borges

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Originality provokes originality.

Odilon Redon

My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible.

Mason Cooley

Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.

Jacob Bronowski

One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original thought.

Johan Huizinga

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

Julie Andrews

I'd like to be an original, to be myself and not a pale copy of anyone else.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

M. C. Escher

Originality is merely an illusion.

Joshua Reynolds

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

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.

Paul Davies

The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science.

David Ayer

'Sabotage' was a work for hire. It wasn't my original idea or script or anything.

Ne-Yo

I feel like everything is inspired by something else. There is no 100 percent original thought.

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.

Paul Cezanne

Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.

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.