"It is my opinion that human history can……" — Simon Conway Morris
"It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed."
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12 Quotes by Simon Conway Morris
Simon Conway Morris has 12 quotes on this site.
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On a perfect planet such as might be acceptable to a physicist, one might predict that from its origin the…
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Evolution is true, it happens, it is the way the world is, and we too are one of its products.…
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The Burgess Shale is not unique, but for those who study evolution and fossils it has become something of an…
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I am driven to observe of the ultra-Darwinists the following features as symptomatic. First, to my eyes, is their almost…
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Richard Dawkins is arguably England's most pious atheist.
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When discussing organic evolution the only point of agreement seems to be: ‘It happened.’ Thereafter, there is little consensus, which…
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I dont think an alien will be a blob. If aliens are out there they should have evolved just like…
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Scientists don't believe anything.Scientists test things.
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If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might…
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By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we…
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It is difficult to imagine evolution in alien planets operating in any manner other than Darwinian.
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Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical…
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding.
— James Rachels
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So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will…
— John Green
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Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of…
— Finley Peter Dunne
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Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.
— Francine du Plessix Gray
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The good Lord in his ultimate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs, but…
— Robyn Davidson
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The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.
— Jodi Picoult
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You can’t change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn’t make the mistake…
— Gail Caldwell
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My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in…
— Dinaw Mengestu
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Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquility, of…
— John Banville
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The larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment.…
— Henry Hazlitt
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The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself; and to be at…
— Robert Frost
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