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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Now, if the book of Genesis is an allegory, then sin is an allegory, the Fall is an allegory and the need for a Savior is an allegory - but if we are all descendants of an allegory, where does that leave us? It destroys the foundation of all Christian doctrine-it destroys the foundation of the gospel.

  Ken Ham

  Christian, Book, Fall

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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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• 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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• [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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• A Creator must exist. The Big Bang ripples and subsequent scientific findings are clearly pointing to an ex nihilo creation consistent with the first few verses of the book of Genesis.

  Henry F. Schaefer, III

  Book, Atheism, Bangs

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• Since religion intrinsically rejects empirical methods, there should never be any attempt to reconcile scientific theories with religion. An infinitely old universe, always evolving, may not be compatible with the Book of Genesis. However, religions such as Buddhism get along without having any explicit creation mythology and are in no way contradicted by a universe without a beginning or end. Creatio ex nihilo, even as religious doctrine, only dates to around AD 200. The key is not to confuse myth and empirical results, or religion and science.

  Hannes Alfven

  Religious, Book, Science

  "Hannes Alfvén: Dean of the Plasma Dissidents". Book by Anthony L. Peratt, p. 196, 1998.

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• At any rate, if evolution turns out to be true, then the Christian should embrace it as one dedicated to following the truth wherever it leads. This might mean reworking his interpretation of Genesis on the subject-much like Christians have had to rework their interpretation of biblical passages referring to the sun rising and setting, the earth not moving, or the earth resting on foundations.

  Paul Copan

  Christian, Moving, Mean

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• One must conclude that, contrary to the established and current wisdom, a scenario describing the genesis of life on earth by chance and natural causes which can be accepted on the basis of fact and not faith has not been written.

  Hubert Yockey

  Origin Of Life, Earth, Causes

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