Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
E. O. WILSONPerhaps 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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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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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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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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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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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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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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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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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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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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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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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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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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