#origins

Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#dependence #his #insofar #only #opportunities

... the pursuit of origins is a way of rescuing territory from death and oblivion, a reconquest that ought to be patient, devoted, relentless and faithful. ↗

— Amin Maalouf

#genealogy #origins #death

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#consider #follow #knowledge #live #made

When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills. ↗

— Albert Claude

#find #hope #i #ills #life

I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#consisting #course #debate #debts #decades

My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#depths #historical #i #judged #making

When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#had #human #i #lucy #name

There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's original cosmology, biology and anthropology. It provided explanations for the origin of the world, life and humans. Science now gives us increasingly complete explanations for those big three. ↗

— J. Anderson Thomson Jr.

#atheism #atheist #biology #cosmology #guessing

In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#back #belief #case #faith #individual

I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it. ↗

— Allen Tate

#besides #deal #dreams #great #great deal