Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
E. O. WILSONWhen you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It’s about conflicts between creation stories.
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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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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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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
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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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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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