True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
E. O. WILSONIn many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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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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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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
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Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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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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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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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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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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