Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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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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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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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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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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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It’s about conflicts between creation stories.
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The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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