By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
E. O. WILSONJehovah 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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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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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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In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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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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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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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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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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