The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
E. O. WILSONThe world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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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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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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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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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 insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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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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