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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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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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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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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Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.
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In all our pictures, we had an antagonist who becomes the good guy, and the underdog fulfills his quest.
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Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.
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There's this tradition of women's magazines - which have been my bread and butter as a freelancer - where the paradigm is that the writing is about relationships, body image, lessons, and it's always redemptive.
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When you treat yourself with the kindness and high regard that you would give to one of your spiritual heroes, your body becomes the epicenter of quiet joy rather than a battlefield for the ego.
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Good results are sometimes owing to a failure of judgment, because the faculty of judgment often hinders us from undertaking many things which would succeed if carried through without thinking.
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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.
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We find, therefore, under this orderly arrangement, a wonderful symmetry in the universe, and a definite relation of harmony in the motion and magnitude of the orbs, of a kind that is not possible to obtain in any other way.
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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.
