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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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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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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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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
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It’s obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life – for 8 billion or more people – without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
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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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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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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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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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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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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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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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