72 Quotes About Origin-of-life

The outgroup is rocks.

The building blocks of Life are made up of invisible shapes and empty spaces.

I have tried, 30 years ago, to write an essay about ideology.

Now as in the beginningOne without a second.

One lives so not to be alone.

In a very real sense, every person who denies God is living of borrowed capital. He enjoys living as if the world is filled with morality, meaning, order and beauty, yet he denies the God whose existence makes such things possible. When you start with theism - "in the beginning God"- these destinations make complete sense. When you start with materialism though - "in the beginning, the particles" - that route takes you over a cliff of absurdity and despair.

I think of the universe as an engine. Perhaps we are a very small, yet very important part of this engine. What this engine drives—its purpose for expanding and contracting—that’s what I’m curious about. It’s unlikely that human beings are even capable of understanding purpose; like a tiny cell in our body, it has no idea why it functions, it simply does.

The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all other attempts, to explain the origin of life, is thus far merely conjectural. I believe he has not even made the best conjecture possible in the present state of our knowledge.

The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth.