Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
E. O. WILSONI 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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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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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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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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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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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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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being’s, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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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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