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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

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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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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being’s, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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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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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.
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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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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 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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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