The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
E. O. WILSONOne thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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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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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It’s about conflicts between creation stories.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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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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A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
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Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
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If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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