By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
E. O. WILSONNature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
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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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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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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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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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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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Willing 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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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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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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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