Simon Conway Morris Quotes
Scientists have wonderfully explained the organization of the universe, but that's really all it claims to do, and I think it does that very successfully.
Quotes to Explore
-
Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.
-
A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
-
There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.
-
It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
-
No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.
-
Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.
-
When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
-
I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.
-
I'm so proud of my Chinese ancestry, but I was born and raised in America, and I really believe in American values, our American system, our freedom, our liberties.
-
For me the only training in Swaraj we need is the ability to defend ourselves against the whole world and to live our natural life in perfect freedom, even though it may be full of defects. Good government is no substitute for self-government.
-
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.
-
I realized immediately that this was a terribly important discovery, but I didn't realize how important it would be until we had spent a lot of time in the laboratory studying it.
-
The thing that's been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is - I think then, and I think now - that if we didn't do this, someone else would have done it.
-
I want to work in art forever.
-
Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.
-
I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and that's really motivating.
-
Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.
-
I've always felt like a designer of lifestyle that has a certain spirit and bohemian quality.
-
Basically, when I'm writing something, I think about what is the subject of the piece. The subject of the piece is our fear of getting old, which is a variation on our fear of dying.
-
Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get.
-
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
-
Scientists have wonderfully explained the organization of the universe, but that's really all it claims to do, and I think it does that very successfully.
