Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
E. O. WILSONIf those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
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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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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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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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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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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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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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