Persist! The world needs all you can give.
E. O. WILSONTheology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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The 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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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It’s obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life – for 8 billion or more people – without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
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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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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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