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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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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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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There is no better high than discovery.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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Course Evolution Human Mind Nature Original Reconciliation Religious Selection Theory Traditional View
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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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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Any Create Green Next Other Revolution Seem Way
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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Arise Character Deeper Religion Then True Well
It’s always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That’s just in human relationships.
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Always Been Belief Belong Great Human People Relationship Superior Survival Tribe Value
Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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Brain Constant Distrore Immediate Input Map Often Sensory World
Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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Environment Living Really Sustain Us
Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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Corrupt Ideology Mind Political Science
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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Biology Effort Toward Enough Gratifying Molecule Research

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