Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
E. O. WILSONBlind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They’re the cemetery workers.
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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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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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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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they’ve had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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You 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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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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