Genesis Quotes

• The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily - and perhaps most tellingly - described in terms of the genesis of the modern Lounge Suit.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Style, Suits, Evolution

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.126, Routledge

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• This is a huge step toward unraveling Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 1-what happened in the beginning. This is a Genesis machine. It'll help to recreate the most glorious event in the history of the universe.

  Michio Kaku

  Science, History, Events

  FaceBook post by Dr. Michio Kaku from Sep 03, 2011

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• But I should be very sorry if an interpretation founded on a most conjectural scientific hypothesis were to get fastened to the text in Genesis... The rate of change of scientific hypothesis is naturally much more rapid than that of Biblical interpretations, so that if an interpretation is founded on such an hypothesis, it may help to keep the hypothesis above ground long after it ought to be buried and forgotten.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Change, Sorry, Biblical

  James Clerk Maxwell (2002). “The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell:”, p.418, Cambridge University Press

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• For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Book, Dark, Science

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• The Europeans and the Americans are not throwing $10 billion down this gigantic tube for nothing. We're exploring the very forefront of physics and cosmology with the Large Hadron Collider because we want to have a window on creation, we want to recreate a tiny piece of Genesis to unlock some of the greatest secrets of the universe.

  Michio Kaku

  Science, Europe, Secret

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• Of course, the genesis of a good portion of the gridlock in Congress does not reside in Congress itself. Ultimate reform will require each of us, as voters and Americans, to take a long look in the mirror, because in many ways, our representatives in Washington reflect the people who have sent them there.

  Evan Bayh

  Mirrors, Long, People

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• I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.

  A.C. Grayling

  Fall, Writing, Science

  "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.

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• Passion is the genesis of genius.

  Tony Robbins

  Passion, Genius, Action

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• No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.

  C. S. Lewis

  Philosophical, Heaven, Religion

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.80, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the most important sense a creationist is a person who believes in creation, and that includes people who believe that Genesis is a myth and that creation involved a process called evolution and consumed billions of years.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Believe, Years, People

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• In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.

  John Barrymore

  Men, Relief, Sometimes

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• There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong.

  Gregory Bateson

  Strong, Believe, Energy

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• My greatest reward is knowing for certain, as I do with many other acts and artistes, that without Jonathan King being alive and involved, Genesis would not exist, and the guys would have had careers as intended - as accountants and lawyers!

  Jonathan King

  Kings, Careers, Knowing

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• It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience)

  James Schuyler

  Mean, Thinking, Mysterious

  James Schuyler (2004). “Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991”

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• Each thing leapfrogs. I do a Genesis project - like now, we're just finishing off an album - and then by the time the album is doing its thing, I could do nothing or I could do a film.

  Phil Collins

  Finishing, Albums, Film

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• I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.

  Manuel Puig

  Character, Special, Trying

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• From the almost total absence of fossil evidence relative to the origin of the phyla, it follows that any explanation of the mechanism in the creative evolution of the fundamental structural plans is heavily burdened with hypothesis. This should appear as an epigraph to every book on evolution. The lack of direct evidence leads to the formulation of pure conjecture as to the genesis of the phyla; we do not even have a basis to determine the extent to which these opinions are correct.

  Pierre-Paul Grasse

  Book, Creative, Fossils

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• It is not good that man should be alone. ... Hitherto all things that have been named, were approved of God to be very good: loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good: whether it be a thing, or the want of something, I labour not.

  John Milton

  Loneliness, Eye, Men

  "The prose works of John Milton".

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• Ethiopia always has a special place in my imagination and the prospect of visiting Ethiopia attracted me more strongly than a trip to France, England, and America combined. I felt I would be visiting my own genesis, unearthing the roots of what made me an African.

  Nelson Mandela

  England And America, Roots, Imagination

  Nelson Mandela (2013). “Long Walk To Freedom”, p.190, Hachette UK

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• [The story of Adam and Eve] it's poetry. One must interpret it as poetry. The first 11 chapters of Genesis [the Primeval History] are absolutely remarkable.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Stories, Firsts, Adam

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I remember one day I came home and shouted to my grandmother, "Grandma, Sarah is pregnant!" Poor Sarah! For weeks before I had read how difficult it was for her to get pregnant. "Grandma! I have news for you!" "What did you learn?" "I have news, Grandma: Sarah is pregnant!" [Genesis 16 - 21].

  Elie Wiesel

  Grandma, Home, Grandmother

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Both of you [Elie Wiesel and Frank Moore Cross] are giants, dare I say nephilim [giants; see Genesis 6:4; Numbers 13:33], in your world.

  Hershel Shanks

  Numbers, Nephilim, Giants

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• St. Augustine wrote that basically it is not possible to understand what was being described in Genesis. It was not intended as a science textbook. It was intended as a description of who God was, who we are and what our relationship is supposed to be with God.

  Richard Dawkins

  Textbooks, Who We Are, Augustine

  Source: inters.org

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• There are sincere believers who interpret Genesis 1 and 2 in a very literal way that is inconsistent, frankly, with our knowledge of the universe's age or of how living organisms are related to each other.

  Richard Dawkins

  Age, Way, Sincere

  Source: inters.org

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• Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by its performance; and it is thus that a knowledge of nature, having all the certainty which the senses are competent to inspire, has been attained--a knowledge which maintains a strict neutrality toward all philosophical systems and concerns itself not with the genesis or a priori grounds of ideas.

  Chauncey Wright

  Philosophical, Character, Ideas

  Chauncey Wright (2003). “Philosphical Discussions”, p.47, A&C Black

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