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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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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They’re the cemetery workers.
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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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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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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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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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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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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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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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