Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
E. O. WILSONIn 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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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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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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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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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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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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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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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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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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