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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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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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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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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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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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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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