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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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If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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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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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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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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It’s always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That’s just in human relationships.
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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.
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