In some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an
E. O. WILSONIdeas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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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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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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Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
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A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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