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The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth.
~ Sidney Altman
Earth
Hypothetical
Life
Origin
Referred
Stage
World
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We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privileges we have had, if not always the material advantages.
~ Sidney Altman
Advantages
Always
Enjoy
Every
Had
Hope
Individual
Intellectual
Least
Material
Privileges
Someday
United
Will
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We are very fortunate to be recognized here in such an extraordinary manner for work that we enjoy.
~ Sidney Altman
Enjoy
Extraordinary
Fortunate
Here
Manner
Recognized
Very
Work
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By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand why it has become one of the leading players.
~ Simon Conway Morris
Become
Drama
Ecological
Leading
Life
Obtaining
Place
Players
Sense
Set
Theatre
Understand
Unfolding
Why
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Evolution is true, it happens, it is the way the world is, and we too are one of its products. This does not mean that evolution does not have metaphysical implications; I remain convinced that this is the case.
~ Simon Conway Morris
Case
Convinced
Does
Evolution
Happens
Implications
Mean
Metaphysical
Products
Remain
Too
True
Way
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If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.
~ Simon Conway Morris
Account
Analysis
Answer
Barbarian
Behaviour
Clear
Comfort
Crumb
Even
Evils
Exists
Find
Horrors
Human
Human Behaviour
Least
Might
Part
Past
Present
Prospect
Remotely
Scientific
Small
Then
Were
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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.
~ Simon Conway Morris
Bearable
Evil
History
Human
Human History
Make
May
No Sense
Only
Opinion
Recognized
Redeemed
Sense
Somehow
Unless
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The Burgess Shale is not unique, but for those who study evolution and fossils it has become something of an icon. It provides a reference point and a benchmark, a point of common discussion and an issue of universal scientific interest.
~ Simon Conway Morris
Become
Benchmark
Common
Discussion
Evolution
Fossils
Icon
Interest
Issue
Point
Provides
Reference
Scientific
Something
Study
Those
Unique
Universal
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In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in 1972 than it was in his lifetime.
~ Stanford Moore
Benefit
Concern
Endeavors
Estate
Even
Expressed
His
Honoring
Lifelong
Lifetime
Mankind
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Nobel
Than
Timely
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This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.
~ Stanford Moore
Associated
Aura
Ceremony
Chemist
Grown
Intellectual
Nobel
Practical
Prizes
Remarkable
Who
Will
Wisdom
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Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Cannot
Charge
Claim
Creationist
Critics
Evolution
Nonsense
Often
Properly
Rhetorical
Scientific
Subject
Tested
Therefore
Viewed
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Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Deeper
Denial
Even
Extensive
Falsely
Few
Hope
Identified
Imposed
Injustices
Life
Limit
Lying
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Opportunity
Strive
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Tragedies
Within
Without
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In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Apples
Classrooms
Confirmed
Degree
Does
Equal
Fact
Mean
Merit
Might
Only
Perverse
Physics
Possibility
Rise
Science
Start
Suppose
Time
Tomorrow
Withhold
Would
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Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Domination
Either
Equate
Extended
Intrinsic
Look
Mirror
Prospects
Superiority
Survival
Tempted
Transient
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Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Dangerous
Destructive
Dogmatic
Innovation
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Nothing
Novelty
Openness
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Worldview
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Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Culture
Done
Foreign
Human
Integral
Integral Part
Intellectual
Part
Priesthood
Science
Thing
Tradition
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The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Analysis
Bone
Closer
Cuts
Err
Establishing
Framework
Hopes
Important
Likely
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Needs
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The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Best
Know
Most
Never
Question
Scrutinize
Stories
Therefore
Think
Those
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The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
About
After
Another
Arrogance
Common
Convictions
Cosmos
Feature
Human
Important
Include
Most
Only
Our
Pedestal
Previous
Revolutions
Scientific
The Most Important
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The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Adaptation
Arise
Evolution
Foundations
Improbable
Lies
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Those
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