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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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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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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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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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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 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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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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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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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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A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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