Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
E. O. WILSONWe have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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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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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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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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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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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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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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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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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Willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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