This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
E. O. WILSONWhat’s been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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What’s been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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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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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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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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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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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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The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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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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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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