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.
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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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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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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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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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 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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There is no better high than discovery.
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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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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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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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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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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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