The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
E. O. WILSONOur brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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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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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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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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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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