The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
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I’m very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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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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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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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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 world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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