The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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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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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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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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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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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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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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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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being’s, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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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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