Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
E. O. WILSONIf 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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.
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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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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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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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Willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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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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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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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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