We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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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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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We 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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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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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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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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There is no better high than discovery.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being’s, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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