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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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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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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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The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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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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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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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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