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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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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What’s been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
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In some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an
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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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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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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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