Simon Conway Morris Quotes

Ethics are pre-determined and a matter of discovery, not a evolved concept.

Simon Conway Morris

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• We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Dark

• We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Country
  • Small
  • Build

• My best time is a 3:20 in Paris in 2010, and I trained to try for a 3-hour marathon in New York, but Hurricane Sandy hit, and it was canceled.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Time
  • Best
  • New York

• To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Money
  • Mistake
  • Dawn

• I'm vegetarian and stick to a strict health regime of brown rice, tofu, salads and soya milk. When I'm at home in Somerset, I buy almost everything in the local farmshops including Barleymow's in Chard. I always get organic - I like happy hens.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Home
  • Happy
  • Health

• They call it The New Avengers but it's really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • People
  • Old
  • Avengers

• … the ego's need to be periodically in conflict with something or someone in order to strengthen its sense of separation between me and the other, without which it cannot survive.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Ego

• His parents had abdicated responsibility to an illusion.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Parents
  • Responsibility

• Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

• One can best observe a movement of the time - its dangers as well as its advantages - by scrutinising it in its strongest, most pronounced form.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Time

• The process of writing a story isn't about fair. It's about getting to the heart of your story, getting to the truth of it. It transcends ideals of fair and unfair, right and wrong.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Truth

• Literary readings aren't going to shake their reputation as the added-fibre of our entertainment diet until the people who organize and participate in them snap out of this mentality.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • People

• I have no problem being with people of different nationalities.

  

  Krzysztof Kieslowski
  • People
  • Different

• I used practically all the money I had available.

  

  Bernard Ebbers
  • Money

• 'SNL' is probably one of the premiere outlets that a musician can perform on that isn't obviously a music outlet.

  

  Miguel
  • Music

• The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.

  

  Charles Krauthammer

• It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.

  

  Max Beerbohm
  • Nature
  • Law

• I've never been in the studio world; TV is as close as I get to the more corporate approach to making entertainment.

  

  Brad Anderson
  • World

• Today, I'm a candidate for the office of president of the United States of America. My kids can't believe I just said that.

  

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.
  • Believe
  • Kids
  • America

• Whoever is gripped by God's spirit turns to his creation with all the interest that comes from God's love.

  

  Eberhard Arnold
  • People
  • God
  • Spirit

• The states of consciousness are all that psychology needs to do her work with. Metaphysics or theology may prove the Soul to exist; but for psychology the hypothesis of such a substantial principle of unity is superfluous.

  

  William James
  • Soul
  • Consciousness
  • Psychology

• Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Writing
  • Morning
  • Envy

• Irrespective of whether we are believers or agnostics, whether we believe in God or karma, moral ethics is a code which everyone is able to pursue.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• Ethics are pre-determined and a matter of discovery, not a evolved concept.

  

  Simon Conway Morris
  • Ethics
  • Discovery
  • Concept