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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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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It’s obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life – for 8 billion or more people – without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
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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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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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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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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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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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Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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Willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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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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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they’ve had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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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.
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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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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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