Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
E. O. WILSONThere is no better high than discovery.
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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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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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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?
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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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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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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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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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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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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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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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