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.
E. O. WILSONPerhaps 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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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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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The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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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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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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