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On a perfect planet, such as might be acceptable to a physicist, one might predict that from its origin the diversity of life would grow exponentially until the carrying capacity, however defined, was reached. The fossil record of the Earth, however, tells a very different story.

Simon Conway Morris
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The most complete human being is he or she who consciously or unconsciously obeys the profound physical laws of our being in such a way that the spirit receives as much help and as little hindrance from the body as possible.

Marie Stopes
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Darwinism is dynamic. It is about change, not stasis; about process, not pattern; about tales, not tableaux; about becoming, not being.

Henry Gee
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Physics, chemistry, astrophysics are obviously the ideal field for the tidy mind...in the biological and geological sciences the tidy mind often goes astray and the passive, unmathematical approach may me more suitable.

Claud William Wright
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Fossils may tell us many things, but one thing they can never disclose is whether they were ancestors of anything else.

Colin Patterson (biologist)

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