Ravi Zacharias

When you think of it, really there are four fundamental questions of life. You've asked them, I've asked them, every thinking person asks them. They boil down to this; origin, meaning, morality and destiny. 'How did I come into being? What brings life meaning? How do I know right from wrong? Where am I headed after I die?

American Author

Nick Cave

There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing and something that happens within a song, where you have absolutely nothing, and then suddenly you have something. It's like the origin of the universe.

Australian Musician

Huma Qureshi

A lot of issues that we have in the world today rise from the fact that we do not know enough about each other's cultures, that we don't respect each other's origins and there is so much negativity and strife around because we don't know where the other person is coming from.

Indian Actress

Harry Bridges

Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the true and real power is with working people of all colors, of all beliefs, of all national origins.

American Activist

Roger Ebert

Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers.

American Critic

John Newton

Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end.

American Clergyman

Paula Pell

I think women are taking charge of the origins of a production, which is the most important part. Because you can't be a victim of whatever people ask you to do.

American Writer

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.

American Physicist

Jack Williamson

I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.

Richard Dawkins

Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.

English Scientist

Refers to the specific location where something started, like a tradition or idea.

Geographical Roots

Understand it may refer to parts of culture, such as cuisine, clothing, or dance.

Cultural Reference

Points to a person's ethnic roots or where their family comes from.

Ethnic Background

May imply the social class or environment a person comes from initially.

Social Status

In math and science, origin refers to a specific point used for measurements.

Scientific Precision

Used as a reference starting point in various systems and contexts.

Starting Reference

Refers to the earliest known history or form of an object or idea.

Historical Beginning

Focuses on the birth or development of concepts and abstract ideas.

Conceptual Start

 Linguistics can even reveal other important historical clues, such as determining the geographic origins and lifestyles of ancient peoples based on which of their words were native, and which were borrowed. There are two main problems linguists face when constructing these language family trees.

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 developed in Plato's other dialogues, which holds that like the shadows on the wall, things in the physical world are flawed reflections of ideal forms, such as roundness, or beauty. In this way, the cave leads to many fundamental questions, including the origin of knowledge,

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 To escort and land the probe on a comet, this has been my passion for the past two years. In order to do that, I need to explain to you something about the origin of the solar system. When we go back four and a half billion years, there was a cloud of gas and dust.

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 which are washed and melted, so they become the raw materials that can be used again. As if by magic, bottle three is now ready to be reborn as something completely new. For this bit of plastic with such humble origins, suddenly the sky is the limit.

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 from literary criticism to sports commentary. Uncertainty is often explained as a result of measurement, that the act of measuring an object's position changes its speed, or vice versa. The real origin is much deeper and more amazing.

What is the Heisenberg...

 nurture and care for a nest of eggs had its origins with the dinosaurs it's a behavior that was so successful it's still widespread today with birds but the fossils show something else these animals all died sitting on their nests

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 other words of friendships yes they started calling them that and here's why because what mattered most was the quality of the bonds not their origin not whether it was relatives or not what mattered were bonds that were stable

The science of...

 young are more likely to survive it now seems clear that the instinct to nurture and care for a nest of eggs had its origins with the dinosaurs it's a behavior that was so successful it's still

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 It now seems clear that the instinct to nurture and care for a nest of eggs had its origins with the dinosaurs. It's a behaviour that was so successful it's still widespread today with birds.

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 to the largest galaxies, to the very existence of space, time, and life. But how did it all begin? The origin of the universe is the origin of everything.

Origin

The point or place where something begins or is created.

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A person's social background or ancestry.

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A fixed point from which coordinates are measured in a geometric or other system.

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The first stage of existence or the earliest version of something.

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Geographical Roots

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