Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
E. O. WILSONIf history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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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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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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It’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 and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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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 moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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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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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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