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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

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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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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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There is no better high than discovery.
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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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 are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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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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In some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an
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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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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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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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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