Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
E. O. WILSONThe education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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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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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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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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The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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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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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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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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