Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
E. O. WILSONYou 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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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.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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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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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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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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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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