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.

Simon Conway Morris

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• 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.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Important
  • Space
  • Computers

• A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.

  

  Edmund Phelps
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  • Nation
  • Rights

• It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.

  

  Daniel Craig
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• 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.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
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• 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.

  

  Nacho Figueras
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• 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.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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• I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.

  

  Bas Rutten
  • Help
  • Thought
  • Movies

• 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.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Believe
  • American
  • America

• 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.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• 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.

  

  Donald Johanson
  • Time
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• 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.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • Done

• I want to work in art forever.

  

  Dasha Zhukova
  • Work
  • Art
  • Forever

• Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.

  

  Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III
  • World
  • Business
  • Failure

• I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and that's really motivating.

  

  Katie Couric
  • Fun

• Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • Good
  • Father

• In all our pictures, we had an antagonist who becomes the good guy, and the underdog fulfills his quest.

  

  Arthur Rankin, Jr.
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  • Guy

• Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.

  

  Edward Levi

• I will never stop writing. People often ask when I will retire, but I say it's none of their business. Writing defines who I am. I love the feeling of holding a finished book in my hands, and then I can't wait to start the great adventure of writing the next one.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • People
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  • Writing

• One of the nice things about living in Silicon Valley is that I end up at all these conferences and things, and I get to listen in on the zeitgeist.

  

  Rick Smolan
  • Listen
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  • Zeitgeist

• The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by God one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • God
  • Law
  • Fall

• I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Power
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• We have filmmakers who make films with some kind of responsibility and take cinema seriously like Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Prakash Jha. But now these people also take stars... Without stars they cannot work.

  

  Om Puri
  • People
  • Work
  • Responsibility

• 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.

  

  Simon Conway Morris
  • Universe
  • Organization
  • Explained