By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
E. O. WILSONWe 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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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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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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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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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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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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