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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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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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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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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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In 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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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It’s always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That’s just in human relationships.
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