One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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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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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Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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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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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path.
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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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People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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