Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
E. O. WILSONWe are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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What’s been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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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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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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 world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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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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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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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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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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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