It’s always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That’s just in human relationships.
E. O. WILSONThis is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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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 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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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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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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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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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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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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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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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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