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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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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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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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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 are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being’s, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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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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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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