I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
E. O. WILSONThe world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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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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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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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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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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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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