If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
E. O. WILSONThe moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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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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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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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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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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