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. WILSONIf 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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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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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We 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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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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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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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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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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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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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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