The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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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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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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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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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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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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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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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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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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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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they’ve had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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