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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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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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Biology Effort Toward Enough Gratifying Molecule Research
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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Attempt Better Bring Century Come Entirely Environment Face Humanity Key Obvious Problem Quality Wrecking
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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Accept Behaviour Choice Corrosive Economic Environmental Ethic Faustian Growth New Ourselves Population Price Risky Stock Unavoidable Upon Very
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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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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Ant Complicate Earth Human Most Next Organization Social
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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Accept Another Dilemma Discover Essence Evolve Genitival Humanity One Spiritual Truth
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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Belief Competing Essential Evolve Group Illogic Religion Selection Strength Weakness
Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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Fierce Have Mist Odd Powerful Productive Religion Science Two World
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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Ant Dominant Great Habitat Impact Inspect Million Year
There is no better high than discovery.
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Better Discovery High One Liner
One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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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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Alone Effort Endeavour Honorable Humanism Imperative Moral Provide Succesful Successful
In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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Ant Away Collapse Ecosystem Environment Land Many Partial
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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