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

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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It’s about conflicts between creation stories.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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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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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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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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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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The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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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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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they’ve had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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