By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
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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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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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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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Willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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I’m very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
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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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
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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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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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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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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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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