#sly

Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds in the primeval oceans. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#ago #arose #because #began #billion

I still take it seriously, but once I go out there I think I've got more relaxed and I think it shows. ↗

— Steffi Graf

#got #i #i think #more #once

The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them. ↗

— Asa Gray

#define #different #difficulties #disturbed #encountered

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#between #curiously #enough #experience #hopes

I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet. ↗

— Eva Green

#am #another #dreamer #i #i am

I mean, we make a 15-minute show that's incredibly silly, even though all of our scenic designers, puppet builders. animators, everybody that works on the show take their work very seriously. So somebody saying that we'd even be in contention for a very respectable award is really nice. ↗

— Seth Green

#award #builders #contention #designers #even

If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake. ↗

— Brian Greene

#icing #out #right #tasty #theory

I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff. ↗

— Jonny Greenwood

#electronic #having #hence #i #images

Obviously there will be a backlash. If you believe the hype you have to believe a backlash too. Any criticism we get, is always stuff we've already criticised ourselves. ↗

— Jonny Greenwood

#always #any #backlash #believe #criticised

Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare. ↗

— William Greider

#could #diligent #either #enough #even