Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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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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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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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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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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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