The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
E. O. WILSONThe 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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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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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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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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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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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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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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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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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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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