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.
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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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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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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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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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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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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