If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
E. O. WILSONI tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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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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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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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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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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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 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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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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Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.
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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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The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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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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