Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
E. O. WILSONEvery kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
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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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they’ve had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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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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There is no better high than discovery.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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In some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an
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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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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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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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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