Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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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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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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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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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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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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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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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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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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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Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
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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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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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