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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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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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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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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.
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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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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