In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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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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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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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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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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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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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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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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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It’s obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life – for 8 billion or more people – without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
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