{"quotes":[{"text":"The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and the reasons for the gradual development and improvement of their organization. This antiquity will appear even greater when he realizes the length of time and the particular conditions which were necessary to bring all the living species into existence. This is particularly true since man is the latest result and present climax of this development, the ultimate limit of which, if it is ever reached, cannot be known.","author":"Jean-Baptiste Lamarck","tags":["age-of-the-earth","evolution","origin-of-life","science","time","understanding"],"id":14072,"author_id":"Jean-Baptiste+Lamarck"},{"text":"My laboratory is interested in the related challenges of understanding the origin of life on the early earth, and constructing synthetic cellular life in the laboratory. Focusing on artificial life frees us to explore novel chemical systems, but what we learn from these systems helps us to understand possible pathways leading to the origin of life. Our basic design for a synthetic cell involves the encapsulation of a spontaneously replicating nucleic acid, which acts as the genetic material, within a spontaneously replicating membrane vesicle, which provides spatial localization. We are using chemical synthesis to make nucleic acids with modified nucleobases and sugar-phosphate backbones.","author":"Jack W. Szostak","tags":["artificial life","biology","chemistry","early earth","early life","first-life","laboratory","nobel-laureate","origin-of-life","science","synthetic-life"],"id":21137,"author_id":"Jack+W.+Szostak"},{"text":"Sentiments that glorify humanity know no racial distinction.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["africa","african","african american","ambitions","black history","black-people","brainy","character","evolution","human-life","human-race","human-rights","humanism","humanismo","humanist","humanitarian","humanitarian-activities","humanitarian-crisis","humanitarian-efforts","humanitarian-intervention","humanitarianism","humanitarians","humanity-and-society","inspirational","life","love-and-kindness","origin-of-human-rights","origin-of-life","origin-of-species","philosophy","race","race-and-racism-in-america","race-issues","race-of-life","race-relations","races","racial-discrimination","racial-equality","racial-identity","racial-injustice","racial-prejudice","racial-profiling","racial-superiority","racism","sentiments","social-psychology","truth","words-of-wisdom"],"id":43166,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall have the power to thrive in such society even for a few seconds.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["africa","african","african-american","ambitions","black-history","black-people","brainy","character","evolution","human-life","human-race","human-rights","humanism","humanismo","humanist","humanitarian","humanitarian-activities","humanitarian-crisis","humanitarian-efforts","humanitarian-intervention","humanitarianism","humanitarians","humanity-and-society","inspirational","life","love-and-kindness","origin-of-human-rights","origin-of-life","origin-of-species","philosophy","race","race-and-racism-in-america","race-issues","race-of-life","race-relations","races","racial-discrimination","racial-equality","racial-identity","racial-injustice","racial-prejudice","racial-profiling","racial-superiority","racism","sentiments","social-psychology","truth","words-of-wisdom"],"id":62568,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.","author":"Francis Crick","tags":["chance","life","miracles","origin-of-life","science"],"id":68485,"author_id":"Francis+Crick"},{"text":"Happiness is like a ripple. If you're the origin, you will get happiness back with same frequency.","author":"saadshah","tags":["happiness","happiness-advice","happy-positivity","happy","happy-soul","life-and-living","life-lessons","live-life-so-well","live-your-best-life","origin-of-life","origin-of-love"],"id":81449,"author_id":"saadshah"},{"text":"Creationists have also changed their name ... To intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible complexity' and the 'abrupt appearance' of life—yet more jargon for 'God did it.' ... Notice that they have no interest in replacing evolution with native American creation myths or including the Code of Hammurabi alongside the posting of the Ten Commandments in public schools.","author":"Michael Shermer","tags":["code of hammurabi","creation myths","creationists","evolution","first amendment","god-did-it","goddidit","hammurabi","intelligent-design","irreducible-complexity","jargon","myths","native-american","origin-of-life","pseudoscience","school","science","separation-of-church-and-state","sophistry","superstition","ten-commandments"],"id":95495,"author_id":"Michael+Shermer"},{"text":"If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["africa","african","african-american","black-history","black-people","brainy","evolution","human-life","human-race","humanism","humanismo","humanist","humanitarian","humanitarian-activities","humanitarian-crisis","humanitarian-efforts","humanitarian-intervention","humanitarianism","humanitarians","inspirational","life","love-and-kindness","origin-of-human-rights","origin-of-life","origin-of-species","philosophy","race","race-and-racism-in-america","race-issues","race-of-life","race-relations","races","racial-discrimination","racial-equality","racial-identity","racial-injustice","racial-prejudice","racial-profiling","racial-superiority","racism","social-psychology","truth","words-of-wisdom"],"id":102408,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled. It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is a family resemblance.","author":"Lewis Thomas","tags":["astonishing","biology","chemistry","common-ancestor","diversity","evolution","genes","life","origin-of-life","science","uniformity","universal-common-ancestor"],"id":108022,"author_id":"Lewis+Thomas"},{"text":"In the biological sense, race does not exist.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["africa","african","african american","ambitions","black history","black-people","brainy","character","evolution","human-life","human-race","human-rights","humanism","humanismo","humanist","humanitarian","humanitarian-activities","humanitarian-crisis","humanitarian-efforts","humanitarian-intervention","humanitarianism","humanitarians","humanity-and-society","inspirational","life","love-and-kindness","origin-of-human-rights","origin-of-life","origin-of-species","philosophy","race","race-and-racism-in-america","race-issues","race-of-life","race-relations","races","racial-discrimination","racial-equality","racial-identity","racial-injustice","racial-prejudice","racial-profiling","racial-superiority","racism","sentiments","social-psychology","truth","words-of-wisdom"],"id":119835,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":30,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}