Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
E. O. WILSONEvery kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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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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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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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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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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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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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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People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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