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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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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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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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Willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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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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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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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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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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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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Anything Desire History Passion Same Science Taight Truth
Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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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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