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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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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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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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If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
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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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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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
E. O. WILSON

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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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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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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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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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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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