This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
E. O. WILSONThe world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It’s about conflicts between creation stories.
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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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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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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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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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