Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
E. O. WILSONThere doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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