The 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.
E. O. WILSONTheology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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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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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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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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There is no better high than discovery.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
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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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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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