Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
E. O. WILSONAnts have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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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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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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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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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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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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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
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