If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
E. O. WILSONIf those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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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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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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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 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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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.
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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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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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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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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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