Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
E. O. WILSONOur brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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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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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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It’s obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life – for 8 billion or more people – without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
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I’m very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
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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 many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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