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

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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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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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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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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Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
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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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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It’s obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life – for 8 billion or more people – without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
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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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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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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.
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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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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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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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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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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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In some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an
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Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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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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Decide Decommissioned Deep Look Must Natural Ourselves Selection Wish
Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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Across Belief Change Come Demonstrate Even Fall Generation Hard Slowly
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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Always Back Carrer Mind New Point Reach Ready Something Write

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