We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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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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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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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path.
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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They’re the cemetery workers.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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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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Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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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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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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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