There is no better high than discovery.
E. O. WILSONBlind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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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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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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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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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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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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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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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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