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

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What’s been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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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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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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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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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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