By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
E. O. WILSONIn many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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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 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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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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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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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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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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