I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
E. O. WILSONWell, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They’re the cemetery workers.
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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 history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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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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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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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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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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