Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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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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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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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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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