The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
E. O. WILSONThe moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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What’s been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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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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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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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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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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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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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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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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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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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The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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