Persist! The world needs all you can give.
E. O. WILSONJehovah 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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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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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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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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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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Willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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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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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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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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