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.
E. O. WILSONWe 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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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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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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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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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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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 dominant insects of the world, and they’ve had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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In some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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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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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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What’s been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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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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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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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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