If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
E. O. WILSONWe have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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It’s obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life – for 8 billion or more people – without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being’s, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.
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Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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