This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
E. O. WILSONAnts 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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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.
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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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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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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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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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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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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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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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I’m very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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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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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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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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