Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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.
More E. O. Wilson Quotes
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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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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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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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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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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 should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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