#origin

But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now. ↗

— Rudolf Otto

#breaking #completely #deep #different #justice

The highly skilled workers at Lima have enabled the plant to grow far beyond its original mission, now providing a wide variety of cutting-edge military vehicles and equipment to the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps. ↗

— Michael Oxley

#beyond #corps #cutting-edge #enabled #equipment

What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them? ↗

— Paracelsus

#could #cure #discovered #diseases #make

I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much more fully formed in his conception than I was. I was sort of struggling to keep up, and sometimes it's pretty obvious. ↗

— Evan Parker

#conception #document #formed #fully #great

Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#facts #mere #mystery #origin #penetrate

I'm constantly trying to be as original as I can. ↗

— Guy Pearce

#i #i can #original #trying

We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

#cosmos #first #generation #human #human beings

The original project began because we know the universe is expanding. Everybody had assumed that gravity would slow down the expansion of the universe and everything would come to a halt and collapse. The big surprise was it was actually speeding up. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#assumed #because #began #big #big surprise

The Commonwealth has had consistently bad press. It was originally seen as a kind of hangover empire. People have long predicted its demise. ↗

— Ben Pimlott

#bad press #commonwealth #consistently #demise #empire

The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country. ↗

— Ted Rall

#allied #billion #commitment #country #coupled