Simon Conway Morris Quotes
It is difficult to imagine evolution in alien planets operating in any manner other than Darwinian.
Quotes to Explore
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I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.
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I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
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Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.
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I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.
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This whole segregation between famous people and other people is complete rubbish.
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It's really hard to use a laptop when you only have half a lap.
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My eldest son George had acute myeloid leukaemia when he was a tiny baby, he is now 20 and doing very well. He is a mini-miracle in many ways.
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I wanted this to have as wide an audience as possible. I didn't want to get an X rating, because in my opinion once that happens you X-out everyone else.
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You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.
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We can afford to pay workers fairly, and it is the right thing to do. We also need equal pay for equal work.
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L.A. is a really good home base. I've grown up here, and so sometimes I have wanderlust even though I tour. You think it would be cured by touring, but sometimes I feel like I want to be somewhere else.
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I would've loved to have children and I'm really good with kids, but I just didn't want to commit to anything when I had cancer. I didn't want to plan for the future.
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If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.
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What is important ... is for Syria fully to cooperate over these questions that have been raised.
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It's like all my life I've been this tower standing at the edge of the ocean for some obscure purpose, and only now, almost eighteen years in, has someone thought to flip the switch that reveals that I'm not a tower at all. I'm a lighthouse. It's like waking up. I am incandescent.
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We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.
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Woman's reproductive organs are far older than man's and far more highly evolved. Even in the lowest mammals, as well as in woman, the ovaries, uterus, vagina, etc., are similar, indicating that the female reproductive system was one of the first things perfected by nature. On the other hand, the male reproductive organs, the testicles and the penis, vary as much among species and through the course of evolution as does the shape of the foot — from hoof to paw. Apparently, then, the male penis evolved to suit the vagina, not the vagina to suit the penis.
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I believe that writers have a responsibility to evolve the language, whether by introducing new words or new usages. Shakespeare alone is responsible for something like 3400 words and phrases.
