Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
E. O. WILSONWe 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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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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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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I’m very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
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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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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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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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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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