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.
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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.
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A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
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There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.
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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.
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It is disgusting that 'Life & Style' and 'InTouch' magazines continue to print these false stories about my life: the status of my marriage, false reports about a miscarriage, the horrible lie that my dad is not my biological father, jealousy over my sisters' lives, etc.
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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.
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I want to work in art forever.
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Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.
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I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and that's really motivating.
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An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.
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Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.
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I put quite a bit of study into the horn, that's true. In fact, the neighbors threatened to ask my mother to move once, you know.
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map and there's no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing.
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I don't think you will meet anyone in Israel who will ever burn the American flag.
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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.
