The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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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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The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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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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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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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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