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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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
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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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They’re the cemetery workers.
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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 had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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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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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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