Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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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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Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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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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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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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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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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