Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
E. O. WILSONWe are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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