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Evolution Quotes by Dan Simmons

8 Evolution quotes by Dan Simmons

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Dan Simmons brings a storyteller’s flair to the idea of evolution, weaving narrative tension into each fragment. This short collection captures his knack for blending science with imagination, making it a neat primer for fans who want to see how he frames change across his works.

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“As Ummon and the other Masters teach, it explains why the giraffe evolved a long neck but never why the other animals…

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“evolution is not progress, that there is no ‘goal’ or direction to evolution. Evolution is change. Evolution ‘succeeds’ if that change best…

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I'm very interested in the evolution of technology, and it's really the idea of artificial life which intrigues me, more than just…

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Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.

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Once evolution gets a good basic design, it tends to throw away the variants and concentrate on the near-infinite diversity within that…

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“I remembered Grandam telling me about an early Old Earth scientist, one Charles Darwin, who had come up with one of the…

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“We’ve been stuck in one species since our Cro-Magnon ancestors helped to wipe out the smarter Neanderthals,” she said. “Now it’s our…

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“Thus evolved some members of the Core—not altruists, but desperate survivalists who realized that the only way ultimately to win their never-ending…

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“The Song of Kali is with us. It has been with us for a very long time. Its chorus grows and grows and grows.…

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“In the end, thought Sol, past logic and hope, it is dreams and the love of those dearest to us that form Abraham’s answer…

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“After seven centuries of existence and at least four centuries where few citizens existed without it, the datasphere – including the All Thing and…

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Context is to data what water is to a dolphin

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Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are…

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Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books…

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“To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of poet is…

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Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced…

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“The day before the Queen's Ball, Father had a visitor--a very young girl with literary aspirations, someone Lord Lytton had recommended visit Father and…

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You've probably heard about the theory of steam-engine time - that even after the steam engine had been invented, it had to wait until…

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“THERE WILL BE NO FURTHER MISUSE OF THIS CHANNEL. YOU ARE DISTURBING OTHERS WHO ARE USING IT TO SERIOUS PURPOSE. ACCESS WILL BE RESTORED…

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“I know the fucking Bible, and there ain't no fucking Book of Leviathan.”

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I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space.

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“Men who read a lot have a more sensitive disposition, added Fowler. [...] I did not know what to say to this. Maybe reading…

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