We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
E. O. WILSONTrue character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
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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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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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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 tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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