Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
E. O. WILSONIt’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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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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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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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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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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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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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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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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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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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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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