Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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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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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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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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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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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What’s been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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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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