Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
E. O. WILSONWe are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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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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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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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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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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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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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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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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