Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
E. O. WILSONScience and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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If 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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Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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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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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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