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Simon Conway Morris Quotes

born 1951 England

Simon Conway Morris (born 6 November 1951) is a British paleontologist, who became noted for his studies of the Burgess Shale fossils. He is Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge.

England
Biologists
Paleontologists

Also known as: Conway Morris, Simon

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The relative moral merits of any of us are in the final analysis only relevant to exponents of the theistic world picture; to those of scientistic inclination they might be socially useful but in the grand order of things can have no meaning in a soulless world.

The Boyle lecture (2005)

A world-picture that encompasses science but also the deep wisdom of theology may help us to explain how it is we can think, how we discover the extraordinary, but so too it may warn us of present dangers and future catastrophes . . .

The Boyle lecture (2005)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Simon Conway Morris (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.