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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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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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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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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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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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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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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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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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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Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.
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