The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
E. O. WILSONEvery kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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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 history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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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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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
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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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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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