Primeval Quotes - Page 3

• No vivimos en una época en la que el conocimiento pueda extenderse por un camino llano y libre de obstáculos, como en la época del descubrimiento del cálculo infinitesimal, y en cierta medida también cuando en el desarrollo de la geometría proyectiva se eliminaron repentinamente los obstáculos que, habiendo impedido el progreso durante mucho tiempo, permitieron que un torrente de investigadores se vertiera sobre suelo virgen. Ya no es posible recorrer los caminos trillados, y en el bosque primitivo sólo pueden aventurarse aquellos que están equipados con las herramientas más afiladas.

  Heinrich Burkhardt

  Conocimiento, ciencia, descubrimiento

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• I think that a new kind of replicator has recently emerged on this very planet. It is staring us in the face. It is still in its infancy, still drfiting clumsily about in its primeval soup, but already it is achieving evolutionary change at a rate which leaves the old gene panting far behind.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Soup, Faces

  "The Selfish Gene". Book by Richard Dawkins, 1976.

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• War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.

  Frank Herbert

  War, Cells, Sea

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.281, Penguin

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• La probabilidad de que se forme vida a partir de materia inanimada es de 1 a un número con 40.000 ceros detrás (1040.000).... Es lo suficientemente grande como para enterrar a Darwin y toda la teoría de la evolución. No hubo sopa primigenia, ni en este planeta ni en ningún otro, y si los inicios de la vida no fueron aleatorios, debieron ser producto de una inteligencia intencionada.

  Fred Hoyle

  Life, Theory Of Evolution, Numbers

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• Nothing is more true, more real, than the primeval magnetic disturbances that two souls may communicate to one another, through the tiny sparks of a moment's glance.

  Victor Hugo

  Real, Two, Soul

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• It is necessary to recover the primeval force of the shock taking place at the moment when opposite a man (the viewer) there stood for the first time a man (the actor) deceptively similar to us, yet at the same time infinitely foreign, beyond an impassable barrier.

  Tadeusz Kantor

  Men, Opposites, Acting

  Tadeusz Kantor (1993). “A Journey Through Other Spaces: Essays and Manifestos, 1944-1990”, p.114, Univ of California Press

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• Por mí pasas a la ciudad del infortunio: A través de mí pasas al dolor eterno: A través de mí entre el pueblo perdido para siempre. Justicia el fundador de mi tejido movió: criarme fue tarea del poder divino, de la sabiduría suprema y del amor primigenio. Antes de mí no había nada creado, salvo lo eterno, y eterno seré. Abandonad toda esperanza, los que entráis aquí.

  Dante Alighieri

  Dolor, Ciudades, Personas

  Dante Alighieri (1846). "La visión; o Infierno, Purgatorio y Paraíso, tr. por H.F. Cary. Con notas", p.18

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• The whole blear world of smoke and twisted steel around my head in a railroad car, and my mind wandering past the rust into futurity: I saw the sun go down in a carnal and primeval world, leaving darkness to cover my railroad train because the other side of the world was waiting for dawn.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Past, Car, Waiting

  Allen Ginsberg (2010). “Collected Poems 1947-1997”, p.45, Harper Collins

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• Supongo que todos habrán reflexionado sobre lo primigenias y poéticas que son las cosas que uno lleva en el bolsillo; la navaja de bolsillo, por ejemplo, el tipo de todas las herramientas humanas, el infante de la espada. Una vez planeé escribir un libro de poemas enteramente sobre las cosas de mis bolsillos. Pero me di cuenta de que sería demasiado largo, y la época de las grandes epopeyas ya pasó.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Libro, Escritura, Épica

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• This is another lie. We are only seeking Man. We have no need of other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is. We are searching for an ideal image of our own world: we go in quest of a planet, a civilization superior to our own but developed on the basis of a prototype of our primeval past.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Lying, Past, Men

  "Solaris". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. Chapter 6: "The Little Apocrypha", p. 72, 1970.

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• One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should; But made a trail all bent askew, A crooked trail as all calves do. . . . . And men two centuries and a half Trod in the footsteps of that calf.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Home, Men, Boston

  Sam Walter Foss, “The Calf-Path”

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• Now when the ancient Egyptians, awestruck and wondering, turned their eyes to the heavens, they concluded that two gods, the sun and the moon, were primeval and eternal; and they called the former Osiris, the latter Isis.

  Diodoro Sículo

  Eye, Moon, Isis

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• The Sierra, a region so quiet and pristine that we have the sense of being the first human beings ever to set foot in it. We fall silent ourselves in its midst, as if conversation in a place of such primeval solitude would be like talking in church.

  Jim Fergus

  Travel, Fall, Talking

  Jim Fergus (2005). "The Wild Girl: The Notebooks of Ned Giles, 1932", Wheeler Pub Incorporated.

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• Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Jealousy, War, Naked

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2004). “Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes: And, The Amateur Emigrant”, Penguin Classics

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• Our primeval Mother Earth is an organism that no science in the world can rationalize. Everything on her that crawls and flies is dependent upon Her and all must hopelessly perish if that Earth dies that feeds us.

  Viktor Schauberger

  Mother, Earth Day, World

  "Our Senseless Toil". Book by Viktor Schauberger, 1934.

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• The choice, as Wells once said, is the Universe-or nothing. . . . The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds is a stupendous one; but if we fail to meet it, the story of our race will be drawing to its close. Humanity will have turned its back upon the still untrodden heights and will be descending again the long slope that stretches, across a thousand million years of time, down to the shores of the primeval sea.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Future, Space, Race

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• The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak, is one of the grandest tunes to walk by. Or on a night in May, one can walk through the too rare Italian forests for an hour on end and never be out of hearing of the nightingale's song.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Song, Italian, Night

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