Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
E. O. WILSONWilling to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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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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