True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
E. O. WILSONIf those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They’re the cemetery workers.
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Perhaps 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 two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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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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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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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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