Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.
E. O. WILSONEvery kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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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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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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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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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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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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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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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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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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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